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Three raw Atlantic bonito steaks with pink flesh and silver-gray skin on a plain ceramic plate.

Bonito

Raw, bone-in cross-cut bonito steaks, cooked with tomato and onion.

Whole raw bluefish with a blue-green back and silver belly on ice in a cream platter.

Bosphorus Bluefish

Fresh bluefish from the Bosphorus.

Torn pieces of soft white bread crumb, without crust, piled on a white plate on a marble table beside a blue checked cloth, with a small bottle of olive oil and a sea view through a window behind.

Bread (soft white, inside only)

The soft inside of white wheat bread, used to bind a walnut sauce.

Two golden oblong wheat bread rolls with scored crusts

Bread rolls (crusty wheat)

A small wheat roll with a crisp crust and soft crumb, used for fish sandwiches.

Folded slabs of white clotted cream on a blue-patterned plate beside a bright kitchen window.

Buffalo-milk clotted cream

Set cream made from buffalo milk.

Fine dry golden bulgur grains in a shallow cream bowl

Bulgur

Wheat that is cooked, dried and cracked; fine for patties, coarser for pilaf.

Pale yellow butter with knife marks on parchment

Butter (salted)

Dairy butter with added salt; the amount varies by brand.

A pale yellow butter slab with soft cut edges

Butter (unsalted)

Dairy butter without added salt; the default butter in our recipes.

Compact fresh cabbage shoots with broad veined leaves and short pale stems in a colander.

Cabbage shoots

Tender cabbage regrowth shoots, often boiled and dressed as a salad in Aegean cooking.

Raw reddish-brown calf liver slices on a red-rimmed cream plate.

Calf liver

Raw calf liver, cut evenly, lightly floured and fried.

Chopped tomatoes in their juice in a cream bowl beside an open unlabelled can.

Canned Chopped Tomatoes

Chopped tomatoes packed with their juices.

Closed green cardamom pods on a small saucer beside an open cloth spice bag.

Cardamom pods

Whole pods holding small aromatic seeds that scent drinks and some dishes.

Orange carrots with trimmed tops and a few slices on a wooden board

Carrot

Orange carrots that add color and gentle sweetness to soups.

Uncooked white rice grains in a shallow cream bowl with a blue floral rim.

Çatalca Ormanlı Rice

Aromatic white rice from Çatalca’s Ormanlı area.

A bunch of fresh green celery with leafy tops, two cut stalks and a few crescent-shaped slices on a weathered wooden board, on a sunny terrace above the blue sea.

Celery stalks

Crisp, ribbed green celery stalks, used raw or in soup.

Fresh crinkled green chard leaves with pale ribs on a cream platter.

Chard

Broad fresh chard leaves with tender ribs for soups and savory baking.

A pale fresh kaşar cheese block and overlapping thin slices on a wooden cutting board, with a sandwich press behind.

Cheese (fresh kaşar)

An unaged, mild, sliceable cheese that melts and stretches when heated.

Pale Kolot cheese with a cut wedge and two slices

Cheese (Kolot)

A pale, semihard cow-milk cheese of the Black Sea region, used for melting.

White künefe cheese portions and cut strips on a board beside a small round künefe pan.

Cheese (unsalted künefe)

Fresh, unsalted cooking cheese for künefe’s warm, stretchy center.

White brined cheese block with cut slices and irregular crumbs on a porcelain plate

Cheese (white brined or feta)

Brined white cheese or feta; milk source, salt and texture vary by product.

Whole brown chestnuts in a cream plate and on a wooden table.

Chestnuts

Fresh, shell-on edible chestnuts.

Two pale pink raw boneless, skinless chicken breast fillets on a red-rimmed cream oval plate.

Chicken breast

Raw boneless, skinless chicken breast for slicing, poaching or shredding.

Golden chicken broth in a clear glass jug and a small cream bowl on a stone counter.

Chicken Broth

Strained chicken cooking broth.

Three pink raw boneless, skinless chicken thigh pieces, one opened flat, with pale seams of fat on a rectangular cream tray.

Chicken thigh meat

Boneless, skinless raw chicken thigh meat, cubed for skewers or cooked and shredded.

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