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...]
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...]
RECIPE: Roast Lamb Chops with Eggplant-Kasseri Cream
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...]
TURKEY: Pammukale
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...]
SAN DIEGO: Roast Lamb Chops with Eggplant-Kasseri Cream
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...]