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If this doesn’t look like breakfast to you, you should probably sleep in.

Im no stranger to a savory breakfast. My daily morning routine in Rome consists of a slice of pizza bianca from Roscioli or rossa from Forno Campo de’ Fiori. But this week in Antep, Şemsa and I took things to a whole new level. In this southeastern Anatolian city, soups and lamb parts of various types are on the breakfast menu. If you can’t (more…)

Katmer. I estimate it contains at least 100 calories per letter. This typical Antep breakfast food (ideally eaten at around 10am, after a very early breakfast soup), is a paper thin dough envelope filled with kaymak (clotted cream), sugar and bright green local pistachios. This morning Şemsa and I visited Katmerci Zekeriya Usta for her (more…)

I was first introduced to beyran, an Antep specialty, during the Istanbul Eats Kebab Krawl a few weeks back. We ate it (in Istanbul, obviously) at 6pm, which is about 12 hours later than Antepli indulge in this spicy lamb and rice soup. (more…)

Monday night I met my friend Marlène for dinner at Metamorfosi, a place I wrote about when it first opened in November 2010. We had an amazing dinner, the best meal yet from the kitchen of chef Roy Caceres and sous chef John Regefalk. You may know John from his own blog Caput Mundi Cibus or his guest posts on Parla Food. He is (more…)

I was pleasantly surprised to find out that T+L named Parla Food in their “Ask an Expert” column! Check it out in the May issue.