liver – Istanbul Eats

Editor’s note: In the latest installment of our ongoing series First Stop, we asked Stavriani Zervakakou, chef of the restaurant Karaköy Gümrük in Istanbul, where she stops first for food wh...

http://istanbuleats.com/2015/11/first-stop-stavriani-zervakakous-istanbul/

The city of Edirne sits on the borders of Bulgaria and Greece in the far northwestern and European portion of Turkey. Once the capital of the Ottoman Empire, Edirne has been occupied for thousand...

http://istanbuleats.com/2015/04/organ-harvest-in-turkeys-liver-capital/

Near the Aksaray metro station, set back from a loveless part of Istanbul crossed by wide roads and overpasses, the kebab is flourishing. Over the past few decades, waves of migration have brough...

http://istanbuleats.com/2014/01/babonun-yeri-organ-music/

We’ve written previously about Turkey’s passionate love affair with liver, one that can turn downright obsessive in some parts of the country. Edirne, an old Ottoman capital city about two ho...

http://istanbuleats.com/2013/10/can-ciger-for-the-liver-lover-in-you-2/

If Lades, which means “wishbone” in Turkish, provided an actual wishbone alongside the usual post-meal wet wipe and toothpick, we’d close our eyes and make a wish that we could eat their ta...

http://istanbuleats.com/2012/12/lades-old-faithful-2/

Perhaps it’s the proximity of the waters of the Golden Horn or the weathered wood interior, but we get a distinctly maritime feeling at Köfteci Arnavut, a tiny köfte joint in the historic Bal...

http://istanbuleats.com/2012/10/kofteci-arnavut-2/

These days, along with döner kebab, Turkey’s biggest export is the soap opera. From Athens to Abu Dhabi, people are hungry for these sultry and often scandalous one-hour dramas. We, too, enjoy...

http://istanbuleats.com/2011/04/asmali-canim-cigerim-ilhan-usta-liver-and-gossip/

There was something jarring and disjointed about the sight of an old man sitting beside an eight-lane highway selling liver sandwiches from his perch on a concrete planter – as if a character f...

http://istanbuleats.com/2011/01/cigerci-lutfi-the-man-with-the-golden-liver/

Perhaps it’s the proximity of the waters of the Golden Horn or the weathered wood interior, but we get a distinctly maritime feeling at Köfteci Arnavut, a tiny köfte joint in the historic Bal...

http://istanbuleats.com/2011/01/kofteci-arnavut-on-the-good-ship-meatball-shop/

Editor’s note: In Salih Seçkin Sevinç, creator of the fantastic Turkish-language food blog Harbi Yiyorum (roughly translated as “Eating, For Real” in English), we’ve found a kindred spi...

http://istanbuleats.com/2010/10/istanbul-eats-on-the-road-mystic-liver-in-antep/