8If you have visited Turkey and love the food or have enjoyed a meal at a local Turkish restaurant but are unable to recreate the recipes once you return home, then this book is for you! Mickey Pek has written a unique cookbook sharing almost 100 dishes she learned to cook from the best of the best! They are her friends, neighbors, relatives, housekeepers, gardeners, caretakers, and chefs. Her small Turkish kitchen has produced amazing dishes but often, when she returned stateside, she struggled to recreate the magic. Why! The ingredients may be available, but the freshness is not, or the variant is slightly different. The recipes she has adopted and adapted attempt to recreate and, whenever possible, simplify the dishes using readily available ingredients, spices, modern equipment, and techniques. She has provided extensive information on what to use as well as what not to use as alternatives when appropriate produce and other products are not available.