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Article: GATHERINGS <> The exotic side of chicken salad <> Turkish recipes give familiar a new flavor
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- The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (Milwaukee, WI)
- Article date:
- August 3, 2008
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Circassian Chicken, a centerpiece of Turkish cuisine, brings out
the romance novelist in cookbook authors.
Circassia, a region of the Caucasus, was renowned for the beauty
of its blue-eyed Asiatic women, the preferred trophy wives of area
potentates.
Ayla Algar, in "Classical Turkish Cooking," introduces her recipe
thus: "This dish conjures up by its very name images of Circassian
beauties languidly reclining in the gilded captivity of the harem."
I first read those words back in 1994, after a two-week
assignment in Turkey.
The food there was certainly seductive -- fresh, complex,
colorful, delectably herbed and spiced, and prepared with care. I
came home to Milwaukee determined to teach ...
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