I fell for köfte almost 29 years ago, on my first visit to Istanbul. Like many tourists I found them by accident, following a trail of smoke to a curbside barbecue. There, on a busy street opposite ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Turkey may be famous for its kebabs, but the popular dish is just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to Turkish cuisine.

Summertime … and the grillin’ should be easy. Kebabs can make it so. Whether they’re prepared with cubed meat, cylinders of ground meat formed as kofte ...

Some trips have much bigger payoffs than anticipated. When native New Yorker Lisa Matarazzo booked a culinary tour of Istanbul with local chef Mehmet Kaplan, good food was only one takeaway. The guide ...

Turkey may be famous for its kebabs, but the popular dish is just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to Turkish cuisine. Covering over 300,000 square miles, the European destination’s rich and ...

(CNN) — Turkey may be famous for its kebabs, but the popular dish is just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to Turkish cuisine. Covering over 300,000 square miles, the European destination’s rich ...

Cig kofte Cig kofte originates from Sanliurfa, taking its name from the original recipe using raw (cig) ground beef, combined with bulgur, tomato paste, onions garlic, pepper and Turkish spices. The ...