Food
Breakfast Across Turkey Shows the Country’s Regionality
July 16, 2019 2:42pm
American breakfasts are becoming more diverse—sometimes even borrowing flavors from the Middle East—but they have nothing on the morning meal in Istanbul, whose dining scene has long included breakfast-focused restaurants and cafés. They serve impressive spreads built around a selection of cheeses (feta-like beyaz peynir or “white cheese” and young Cheddar-like kasar) and breads including sesame seed-coated braided simit and soft-crumbed buns called pogaca. Eggs are hard-boiled and/or...