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A hand of ripe yellow bananas and one loose unpeeled banana on a blue-rimmed cream plate.

Alanya Bananas

Aromatic Dwarf Cavendish bananas from Alanya.

Dark brown carob pods on a blue-and-white platter, with a broken pod and loose seeds.

Alanya Carob

Naturally sweet, dark brown carob pods from Alanya.

Finely ground brown allspice mounded in a cream bowl with a blue patterned inner rim, on pale stone beside a linen cloth.

Allspice

A single warm-aroma spice ground from dried berries; not a mixed blend.

Cleaned raw butterfly anchovies with silver skin and gray-pink flesh in a blue floral ceramic platter.

Anchovies

Raw anchovies, cleaned and butterflied, for frying or arranging around rice.

Fresh green olives in a shallow cream dish and on pale stone beside an olive branch.

Antalya Tavşan Yüreği Olives

Antalya’s firm, heart-shaped green-olive variety.

Three pale trimmed artichoke bottoms with scraped hollow centers on a cream plate, on a pale stone counter beside an empty hammered copper pan and linen in window light.

Artichoke bottoms

Fresh trimmed artichoke bases that form a natural cup in olive-oil vegetable dishes.

Golden olive oil in a shallow blue-rimmed dish beside a dark glass bottle

Ayvalık olive oil

Fruity extra virgin olive oil from Ayvalık’s local olives.

Fine white baking soda with small natural clumps in a cream ramekin on a sunlit stone table.

Baking soda

Food-grade sodium bicarbonate, a raising ingredient used in measured amounts.

Fresh purple basil sprigs resting on a cream cloth.

Basil (purple)

Fresh purple-leaved culinary basil that gives drinks a distinctive herbal aroma.

Overlapping muted olive-green dried bay leaves with visible veins on an oval cream plate beside a coastal view.

Bay leaves

Dried culinary bay leaves that flavor simmering dishes and are removed before serving.

A speckled tan stoneware bowl of plain cooked pinkish-tan beans, a few with wrinkled or split skins, on a pale stone counter, with a bright window and blurred shelves of white jars behind.

Beans (borlotti, cooked)

Tender cooked borlotti beans, ready for a gentle olive-oil braise.

Pale yellow dried peeled broad-bean halves in a cream bowl, with a few scattered beside it.

Beans (broad, dried, split)

Dried, split and peeled broad beans that cook into the smooth base of fava.

Naturally overlapping cooked white beans in a cream bowl

Beans (white, cooked)

Mature white beans, cooked and drained; the base of a tahini bean salad.

Small dry ivory-white beans in a terracotta bowl with a few scattered on linen by the sea.

Beans (white, dried)

Dried white beans, soaked and cooked thoroughly for stews and salads.

Raw ground beef with irregular pink-red strands and white fat flecks

Beef (ground)

Raw minced beef; fat content and grind vary by product.

Thin pink beef bologna slices, some gently folded, on a scalloped blue patterned plate.

Beef bologna

Raw beef marrow and joint bones on a clean preparation counter.

Beef bones

Raw marrow and joint beef bones that add richness and body to stock.

Red raw beef chuck cubes with pale fat seams on a cream plate.

Beef chuck

Raw beef chuck with lean and fat, suited to slow-cooked dishes.

Plain beef cooking broth with a thin surface layer of fat in a clear glass jug.

Beef cooking broth

The liquid reserved from boiling beef, used to give rice a savory base.

Long beef frankfurters with one cut end on a blue-rimmed dish in a bright courtyard.

Beef frankfurters

Two raw boneless beef striploin steaks with pale fat edges on a parchment-lined white tray.

Beef striploin

Raw boneless beef striploin, a cut suited to very thin slicing.

Folded pale raw honeycomb beef tripe on a green-rimmed cream dish.

Beef tripe

Cleaned raw beef stomach, simmered long and gently until tender for soup.

Flattened ribbed green Kamber fruits with one red-ripe fruit on a plate

Bilecik Kamber

A round, flattened eggplant relative locally called Kamber or Gavata pepper.

Raw butterflied bluefish with pale flesh, silver skin edges and a forked tail on a white platter.

Bluefish

Raw bluefish, butterflied to open into an even piece for grilling.

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