by Expat Sofra Expat Sofra | May 27, 2019 | Blog
The flat of plump purple fruit stares at me from its inclined position on the familiar shelves of Harvest Wagon in Toronto’s tony Rosedale neighbourhood. It wasn’t there yesterday and seems to have appeared out of nowhere, exotic-looking and vaguely suggestive. Within...
by Expat Sofra Expat Sofra | May 19, 2019 | Blog
I raced around Cengelkoy, wracking my brain for ideas. Well, raced as much as one CAN speed around on this busy, coastal Istanbul road. We were scheduled to shoot the photos for keskek today, a time-intensive village stew, and I needed a faster solution. I didn’t have...
by Expat Sofra Expat Sofra | May 13, 2019 | Blog
“What was it like, living in Turkey during Ramadan?” a friend asks while we sit in a coffee shop in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula. Having spent over fifteen years in Turkey, this should be an easy...