TURKEY F0R CONNOISSEURS

Contents

Art

The Platonic Bowl: the perfect pots of Alev Ebüzziya Siesbye

by Alistair McAlpine · 42

Drama in the Round: the mosaics and frescoes of the Kariye Camii

by Robert Ousterhout · 60

Wish You Were Here: the postcards of Max Fruchtermann, by Elizabeth Meath Baker · 72

Profiles

Travels with Turhan: a tribute to the botanist Turhan Baytop, by Brian Mathew · 22

Parallel Lives: Stratford Canning and Mahmut il, by David Barchard · 3 6

Travel

Beaufort's Hunt: the man who put Turkey's coast on the map, by Nicholas Courtney · 48

Time Travelling: the Pamukkale Express, by Jane Taka· 82

Reviews

BooKs

All Their Yesterdays: Maureen Freely on travel classics by Brian Sewell and irfan Orga· 25

Bazaar Coincidence: John Carswell on Renaissance shopping habits · 26

Wizard of Of: David Barchard on the Black Sea's lasting legacy · 28 Leader of the Pack: John Freely on the romance of Sixties Istanbul · 30

Musıc

Passionate Revelation: Ateş Orga on the piano recordings of Fazıl Say · 3 2

Food

The Birth of the Big Apple: from the Heavenly Mountains to the garden of Anatolia

by Ursula Buchan and Berrin Torolsan · 90

Regulars

CONNOISSEUR: Exhibition and saleroom round-up from Istanbul, London,

Washington and New York · II DESPATCHES by Andrew Finkel · 20

WıNE by Kevin Gould · IOO

TRADE SECRETS: The art of making güllaç pancakes, by Berrin Torolsan · Io6

VıLLAGE VoıcEs by Azize Ethem · I I 3 Fooo F0R THOUGHT by Andrew Finkel · I I9

COVER

Bowl by Alev Ebüzziya Siesbye - see 'The Platonic Bowl' on Page 42

Photograph by Jean Marie del Moral