What It's Like to Be Up to Your Eyelashes in Baklava

Ana Sortun is renowned for her Arabic-inspired restaurants Oleana, Sarma and Safra near Boston. Her dishes feature local ingredients sourced from her husband's organic farm, gussied up with the flavors of Turkey, Morocco and Lebanon. Sortun has traveled to Turkey to research its ancient food traditions several times since her first visit nearly two decades ago. She spoke to Plate about one of her most...