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WORLD FARE: Across the Bosphorus — and the tracks — to Lezzet Café

June 26, 2014 MAG Leave a Comment

WORLD FARE:  Across the Bosphorus — and the tracks — to Lezzet Café

Lezzet Café sits below the point where Chollas Creek empties into San Diego Bay and Interstate 15 ends in the least fancied stretch of Barrio Logan (3586 Main St.). It's the endpoint of a journey, if not exactly a destination. It takes an act of will to get there.  Turkish … [Read more...]

Middle East, Other, Publications, Restaurant Reviews, Reviews, San Diego, San Diego CityBeat, The World Fare, Turkey

THE WORLD FARE: The Kebab Shop is winning San Diego’s street-food war

September 12, 2013 MAG Leave a Comment

THE WORLD FARE:  The Kebab Shop is winning San Diego’s street-food war

My nominee for best street food in the world would have to go to Turkey's döner kebab, meat rotating on a vertical rotisserie spit, sliced thin and served up in a flatbread such as lavash or pita with yoghurt-garlic sauce and often with pickles, salads and other condiments, … [Read more...]

Middle East, Other, Publications, Restaurant Reviews, Reviews, San Diego, San Diego CityBeat, The World Fare, Turkey

RECIPE: Roast Lamb Chops with Eggplant-Kasseri Cream

March 19, 2012 MAG Leave a Comment

With a trip to Turkey on our summer docket we had been spending a lot of time at North Park Produce lately. One of our new favorite Turkish dishes is called Hünkar Beğendi (which variously translates into English as "The Sultan Approves" or "Sultan's Delight") and is … [Read more...]

Middle East, Recipes, Turkey

TURKEY: Pammukale

March 19, 2012 MAG Leave a Comment

Turkey is exotic. It has been so for centuries -- millennia even -- becoming in Western European minds the very definition of "the other." Its exoticness, though, is of a particularly beguiling quality. There is just enough that is familiar to raise the comfort level. Istanbul … [Read more...]

Middle East, Middle East, Travel, Turkey

SAN DIEGO: Roast Lamb Chops with Eggplant-Kasseri Cream

March 3, 2011 MAG Leave a Comment

One of the enduring pleasures of living in San Diego is the tremendous access we have to wonderful ethnic foodstuffs. That this would be so for latin ingredients is not surprising.  Given the proximity to Mexico and the large Latin American population it could hardly be … [Read more...]

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