Turkish Flavours: Recipes from a Seaside Café
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Turkish Flavours: Recipes from a Seaside Café is the signed, illustrated cookbook that transports you straight to the sun-washed tables of Sevtap Yüce’s tiny coastal café. Every one of the 192 pages carries her looping autograph and a short personal inscription, turning this already-collectible 2012 Hardie Grant first edition into a keepsake you’ll display as proudly as you cook from. Fans who watched her on Australian television or followed her newspaper columns will recognise the same warm voice that makes dishes like spiced lamb pizza with pomegranate molasses or slow-baked figs in syrup feel utterly doable in a home kitchen.
What sets the book apart is the way Yüce balances authenticity with accessibility. She gives you the building blocks—how to roll translucent yufka without a broom-handle dowel, the exact grind for the pepper that perfumes her tarhana soup—then shows how to slot those techniques into modern week-night schedules. Vegetables star as often as meat, and every recipe is tested for ingredients you can find outside Istanbul’s markets, so Turkish breakfasts, mezze platters and even the beloved three-milk nightingale cake become realistic any-night cooking goals.
Collectors prize this trade-paperback release for its oversized, lay-flat format and the generous colour photography that captures both plated dishes and Aegean seascapes. At 23 oz and nearly ten inches square, it feels substantial in the hand yet still wipes clean after a session of stuffing mussels with herbed rice. With online prices climbing for signed copies, snapping up this very-good, inscription-enriched copy is the fastest way to own a slice of culinary Turkey without the airfare—and to bring the flavours of a seaside café permanently to your own table.
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