Turkish White Bean Stew With Meat Turkey is not just Hagia Sophia, Mimar Sinan or, as recently protests, Turkey is also cuisine.One of the simplest, yet most magnificent dishes is kuru fasulye.Kuru fasulye is a stewed bean dish. It is made primarily with white beans and olive oil, and onion and tomato paste or tomato…
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How I Survived the Istanbul Protests
My friend tells me that I know how to choose my timing.After five years, I return to Istanbul. And immediately protests.OK, not because of me, I am just a calm observer of events. Well, the internal affairs of Turkey.So, on Tuesday evening, March 18, I walk to Taksim Square. I want to take a photo…
Six Days in Istanbul
Short Notes I haven’t traveled anywhere for five years. First Covid, then my mother’s illness. And then my mother died.She always said how sad she was because, according to her, I wasn’t traveling anywhere because of her. So I explained to her that my presence with her was my decision. No one forced me to…
Bud
There used to be a saying that if you have relatives in America, you have them in Cleveland. Cleveland was considered the largest Slovenian city for a long time after the WW2. Even more Slovenes lived there than in Ljubljana.And of course I am no exception. My ancestors on my mother’s side, three aunts and…
To the South
Part TwoMontenegro, Here I Come And so I went further south, past Dubrovnik, all the way to Montenegro.When I cross the border of the republic at that time, I encounter a convoy of vehicles. They were waiting for the ferry across Boka Kotorska. Since I had a lot of time at my disposal, I decide…
To the South
Part OneFrom Bosnia with Love Before the war in the Yugoslav republics in the nineties, we traveled through Bosnia several times. We either went south to the sea, or to visit the old Bosnian towns. Vrbas river canyon, Mostar, Jajce, Sarajevo… Narrow roads, unlit tunnels, inadequate road signage, yes or no signposts…And so in the…
Lefty O’Douls
And then I was at another famous bar in San Francisco – Lefty O’Douls Restaurant & Cocktail Lounge on 333 Geary St.The bar was started by retired major league baseball player Francis Joseph “Lefty” O’Doul in 1958.But who was Lefty O’Doul? Francis Joseph “Lefty” O’Doul (March 4, 1897 – December 7, 1969) was an American…
Mỹ Sơn
Between the 4th and 13th centuries a unique culture which owed its spiritual origins to Indian Hinduism developed on the coast of contemporary Viet Nam. This is graphically illustrated by the remains of a series of impressive tower-temples located in a dramatic site that was the religious and political capital of the Champa Kingdom for…
West of the Pecos
Zane Gray – West of the PecosPecos Smith is the best horseman, the best shot, the best man with a rope who ever rode out of southwest Texas. That is all anyone really knows about him. But in six-gun country, west of the Pecos, people figure he will be useful to have around. This is…
Tuscan-style Chicken Fillet
Tuscany.One of the most photogenic landscapes in the world. The land of delicious food and pleasant wines.Lines of cypress trees on the horizon, lonely trees, blooming poppy fields. Vineyards, sunflower fields.Medici family, Dante Alighieri, Leonardo da Vinci, Botticelli, Galileo Galilei and more and more.The medieval towns are perched on top of the hills.Florence, San Giminiano,…