When it comes to art and food, there’s an old saying from the 1900s that sums things up perfectly. Penned by then-bestselling Manhattan cookbook author Gesine Lemcke at the turn of the century, the maxim goes: “Eating is a necessity, …
One hundred and one years ago, Hasan Petek, who had left Çamlihemsin in the Black Sea region of Turkey a number of years earlier, opened his first bakery in Istanbul, selling only bread. His journey to his country’s capital was …