Beet-Top Borek

My Turkish friend Dilara  is living in New York. We have been collaborating on food, speaking food, and enjoying food together.  As always her whirlwind dervish dinners are  chaotic events, but always tasty. Inviting her for dinner, I decided to make...

In a pickle, a fermented story!

For years, there are many things that have fermented around me; ideas in my mind, bits within my sourdough, and probably many other things. But making sour dill pickles, and especially kimchee,  have escaped my grasp! Since childhood I loved sour pickles. Then I...

Abracadabra, alakazaam!

My jets haven't cooled from my west coast bread workshop followed by a brief one day layover in NYC and then?Abracadabra, alakazaam! I am in Istanbuuuuuuuuuuuuul! Back in Istanbul with Dilara! It's been a few days now (make that a week) since I arrived in...