Tag Archives: Turkish

Turkish Munich

Posted on July 3, 2013 by wcd2

July 3, 2013 Last time I came by train. What struck me immediately, getting out of the station, was the city’s Turkish population, out in force, women wearing head scarves and not looking conspicuous, walking comfortably up and down … Continue reading →

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Ntozake Shange, Alice B. Toklas: What Cooks Know

Posted on January 23, 2013 by wcd2

January 23, 2013 “The first effable gazpacho was served to us in Malaga,” Alice notes. She and Gertrude Stein would also find “entirely different but equally exquisite” versions of the that soup in Seville and Cordoba, cities once under Islamic … Continue reading →

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