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Summary: A richly illustrated guide to the best of Turkish cuisine
Review: "Turkish cuisine abounds in just the kind of fragrant, spicy dishes, many of them grilled, that fit perfectly into the warm-weather scheme. Ozan . . . offers a complete course in his native cuisine . . ." --NY Times Book Review"The Sultan's Kitchen [is] filled with beautiful photographs of Turkish food and divided into sections for meze (appetizers), bread, soups, meat, seafood, pilafs, salads, and desserts. [It includes] an outline of important ingredients indigenous to the area, and essential sauces and condiments. It's not to be missed." --The Boston Globe Tangy egg-lemon soup. Vegetable-stuffed eggplants sautŽed in fragrant olive oil, nutty pilafs and delicous grain salads. These are the flavors of Turkey presented in The Sultan's Kitchen, which offers over 130 tantalizing recipes, complete menu suggestions, and stunning images that will make your mouth water. With its focus on using fresh ingredients from all of the food groups, the Turkish diet is particularly enticing to health-conscious cooksÑespecially vegetarians. The easy-to-follow recipes make the dishes of the sultans easy to re-create in the home kitchen. Beautiful photos by Cook's Illustrated photographer Carl Tremblay will make you feel as if you've traveled to Istanbul, with its cool tiled rooms and colorful tables. Trained in Turkey and France, chef Ozcan Ozan is a member of the James Beard Association. His restaurant, Sultan's Kitchen, has been profiled in the Boston Phoenix as well as the Boston Globe. He has been selected as the Best Middle Eastern restaurant in Boston by Boston Magazine and for four years by the Zagat Restaurant Survey. Photographer Carl Tremblay's credits include the Olive's Cookbook and he is a frequent contributor to Cook's Illustrated, Yankee magazine and Boston magazine.
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Summary: Masterpiece
Review: Breathtaking foray into a foreign land; it seems to honor the culture, history, and beauty of the region and its people. Recipes are friendly and photos are enticing. A real keeper!
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Summary: best turkish cookbook
Review: I am keen on collecting cookbooks. As I am Turkish I have a special interest in Turkish cuisine. I have 9 books on this topic, 4 of them in English. Ozcan Ozan's book is the best among them. Turkish food, definitely very tasty, but is not all that easy to prepare. Ozan explains each step very clearly and the measures he gives are very accurate. Apparently he genuinely put a lot of thought into it and wrote it in a way that everybody could apply.
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Summary: authentic and simple
Review: I bought this book after visiting turkey. I loved the food and wanted to recreate it in my own kitchen. My boyfriend is turkish and he misses his homeland food quite badly. Using this book, he says my cooking is as (well, almost) good as his mother's cooking.
I own another turkish cookbook, and while tasty, the recipes are much more complicated and its difficult to find many of the ingredients. This book is top-knotch!
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Summary: Best Turkish cookbook yet
Review: I have lived in Turkey and enjoyed the food perhaps too much. Also my hobby is collecting Turkish cookbooks and cooking Turkish food. This book is at the top of my list. Every recipe I've tried has been perfection. Not due to my cooking skills but because of the quality of the recipe. Don't hesitate to buy this book.
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Summary: Mediterranean Diet Haven!
Review: I have this cookbook, and cook from it at least once a week. The recipes are well thought out and always tasty. Recently, I adopted a mediterranean diet, and found that I could eat foods I really liked, and still be healthy. However, lunch was always a problem. I'm lucky enough to work around the corner from the restaurant, Sultan's Kitchen, where Ozcan cooks. This is where the recipes come from. They are healthy, they are tasty and they are very well tested. I highly recommend this book for anyone looking to adopt a healthy diet or looking for turkish recipes.
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Summary: Great Turkish food in your own kitchen
Review: I love Turkish food, and with this book I have been able to replicate some of my favorite restaurant dishes, as well as make new discoveries. The meze (Turkish appetizer) recipes are uniformly terrific-- the spicy pureed feta and spicy tomato recipes alone justify the price of the book. They have become standards in our house and are requested by guests time and time again. For the most part, the dishes are easy to make, although a few are labor intensive. Instructions are clear. The pictures make one's mouth water. The only reason I did not give this book 5 stars is that I most enjoy cookbooks that both have good recipes and are fun to read. There is not much to read in this book other than the recipes.
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Summary: Excellent Turkish Food!
Review: I really liked this book with easy to follow recipes...Everything I tried so far (keskul, kisir, begendili tavuk) came out as it would if my mom have made them (oh well close enough)...Being away from home became less miserable :)
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Summary: The Sultan's Kitchen
Review: I used to live in Boston and regularly dine at the Sultan's Kitchen. It is the only Turkish restaurant I've visited in the US that immediately transport's me to my Hala's kitchen in Istanbul. I'm thrilled to have this book available to me. It is one way for me to stay connected to family so far away. I highly recommend this book to anyone. Turkish food is delicious and The Sultan's Kitchen makes the best.
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Summary: Some heavily interpreted dishes
Review: I'm Turkish and own several cookbooks on Turkish cuisine written in Turkish. Yet I find myself referring to this book quite often. It covers most of the standards and has interesting local dishes. I'd definitely recommend it to foreigners who want to be cooking "the real thing". However, there are some dishes which to me seem either made up, relatively unknown or heavily interpreted by Mr. Ozan. For example, the wedding soup does not have so many vegetables in it; in fact it has none.
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