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Istanbul Prepares for First Shake Shack

On the heels of Bloomberg Businessweek's outing of America's young burger billionairess, Eater reports that Shake Shack will open in Istanbul later this year. The New York-based chain from Danny Meyer's Union Square Hospitality group currently operates burger joints across North America and the Midd ... More >>

Simit--'Turkish Bagel'--Invades the Upper West Side

The simit tastes pretty good, but is it actually a bagel? Above: the whole wheat simit A neophyte chain called Simit Smith has introduced a new sort of bagel to the Upper West Side. In Turkey, it's known as a simit, but there are a half-dozen other names for it in the Middle East, Greece, Romani ... More >>

How Many of These Bread Dips Can You Identify?

This delicious collection of 15 bread dips is Dish #29 in our countdown. Welcome to 100 Dishes to Eat Now, the tasty countdown leading up to our "Best of 2012" issue. Tune in every day (weekends, too!) for a new dish from the Fork in the Road team. [See More 100 Dishes: Pok Pok Brings the Funk to ... More >>

Our Restaurant Fantasies, Revealed

After reading this fun restaurant wish-list over on Diner's Journal, the Fork team started wishing and hoping for some of our own fantasy places to open. I'd love for a truck to drive around in the winter serving cups of really good, hot cassoulet. If there's a line, there will be nips of brandy w ... More >>

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New works from around the world

Thanksgiving Round-Up: Chef Reminiscences! Recipes! Crazy Stories!

Here at Fork in the Road, we've been hammering pretty hard on Turkey Day this year, and here is a summary of the pieces we've posted for your retrospective pleasure. Have a great holiday! Jacques Pépin Reveals His Thanksgiving Turkey Secrets Make Stephanie Izard's Green Bean Casserole Make ... More >>

Turkey's Nest Tavern, Beloved Bedford Ave Bar, Closed for Health Violations, Plans To Reopen Wednesday

Creative Commons via BitchcakesBurrrrrp!Have no fear, Williamsburg lushes. Even though the Turkey's Nest, the Bedford Avenue drinking hovel made famous by its take-out margaritas and bathtub-sized beers, has been shuttered since last Wednesday, the old-school bastion of neighborhood degenerates is, ... More >>

Where Can I Get Turkish-Style Bureks?

The boureka at Gazala Place, with a side of babaganoush​A Reader Asks: Where can I get a Turkish burek? Not the little finger-shaped sigara bureka, but the kind my relatives in Turkey made -- little triangular ones made with filo dough. Dear Reader: That's a good question. Throughout the Balk ... More >>

Marty Markowitz Fined $20,000 for Taking His Wife on Free Trips to Turkey, the Netherlands

​Brooklyn Borough President Marty Markowitz is in trouble, to the tune of $20,000, for accepting free travel and other accommodations for his wife, Jamie, on recent trips to Turkey and the Netherlands. The city's Conflicts of Interests board ruled that Markowitz is allowed to accept free trave ... More >>

Bal: Where Nothing and Everything Happens

The Opulent Organs of Western Beef

​Here's looking at you, kid -- I mean piglet. Organ meats, also known as offal or by the more all-inclusive category of variety meats, form a perpetual topic of conversation among food fanciers. Some love 'em. Some hate 'em. But no one is completely indifferent. Many chefs have fooled around ... More >>

Handy Fat Rolls Conceal Stolen Goodies for Enterprising Oklahoma Ladies

​Here's one deserving the WTF tag, if there ever was. Two women have been arrested for shoplifting at a TJ Maxx in Oklahoma. This wasn't any boring old garden variety put-that-lipstick-in-your-purse shoplifting! Oh, no. They managed to shove four pairs of boots, three pairs of jeans, a wallet, ... More >>

The Best Thing I Ate Yesterday

Welcome to The Best Thing I Ate Yesterday, where we endeavor to remember the very best thing we stuffed down our gullets over the past 24 hours. Why? Because the only thing better than enjoying a meal is wallowing in the memory of one savored in the recent past. Today's fond reminiscences ... Robe ... More >>

The 9 Most Hideous Thanksgiving-Themed Tchotchkes

​Happy Thanksgiving! Time to be thankful you don't own any of these items. Here, we've identified the 9 Thanksgiving-themed tchotchkes that frighten us the most. (Sorry to the creators of said items, but we are thankful that you possess the genius and home craftsmanship/manufacturing prowess t ... More >>

STRING SEMINAR

The beauty of classical bows and plucks

Omak 'Honey Nut' at Brighton Bazaar in Brighton Beach

​Brighton Beach food stores abound with great gifts for your foodie friends, often available nowhere else. A case in point is Omak's "Honey Nut," a big jar of honey prettily lined with nuts, including almonds, hazelnuts, pistachios, walnuts, peanuts, and coconut chunks. There are also more cr ... More >>

Que Bajo?!

New York Gypsy All-Stars & Husnu Senlendirici

Vegetarian (and Vegan) Delights of NYC: Samosas at Curry in a Hurry

​One of the great cheap vegetarian meals of the city is a pair of potato samosas--it would be vegan, too, if you ignored the green sauce on the upper left. The samosa is one of India's great culinary achievements. Though it has antecedents in Turkey and Central Asia, the little hand-held pie ... More >>

Orange 'Tomato' Eggplant Appears

​ Small pumpkins? No, eggplants! Recently arrived in area farmers markets is the orange Turkish eggplant, also known as the tomato eggplant for its resemblance to a tomato. The specimens gathered at Abingdon Square this past Saturday are firm-fleshed, and had to be set aside for a few days to ... More >>

Smokers Fight, Kill for Rights in Turkey

​Apparently smokers are way more protective of their rights in Turkey than they are here in New York. A fight broke out when a restaurant owner in Southwest Turkey ordered a group of customers to extinguish their cigarettes following a national indoor smoking ban, leaving the owner dead and h ... More >>

'Istanbulive: The Sounds & Colors of Turkey'

Getting Your Phreak On at Gazala Place

Unique Middle Eastern restaurant flowers in Hell's Kitchen

JESUS IS MY HOMEBOY

Older than 33 need not apply

Vegetarian Delights of NYC -- Boreks

Herein begins a new series highlighting the city's best vegetarian dishes. Spinach borek at Gazala Place, along with a side of the marvelous smoky babaganoush, laked with green olive oil (click to enjoy). The flaky pies variously called boureka, bureks, or boreks originated ... More >>

Lynn Yaeger Gift Idea: Paul Mitchell Blago Brush

Post Claims Dive Bar Expertise, Produces Boring List

At JFK, Erhan Yildirim Clears Corpses For Takeoff

A wing and a prayer

World's No. 1 Thinker Lives in Philadelphia!

Our Man Sietsema and the Tough Old Cock

Eating Cock at Brooklyn Greco-Turk

Yogurt and pine-nut delights in Bay Ridge

Under Siege

Elif Shafak talks about her novel and the real trial of imaginary characters

Feta Blizzard

A real Bulgarian mehana touches down in Long Island City

Stinky Herb

The very best lamb chops in Astoria are not exactly Greek

Through Various Lenses, Dancers and Musicians From Across the Globe

Antique Motif: A New Bar Fit for a Prince (Or Even a Frog)

Don't Go in the Basement

The Price of Allies

Turkish Pols Caught Between Voters and U.S. Billions

Chronicle of a Gulf War Foretold

Did the Media Have a Choice?

Part Two: Code of the Kalashnikov

The Blood of Massacred Turkish Kurds Holds a Fearful Lesson for Those Who Would Flee Iraq

Part One: Crude Measures

At the Gates of a Global Oil Rush, Turkish Fishermen Threaten a Blockade

America, From Ally to 'World's Biggest Terrorist State'

Protesters in Turkey Tell Uncle Sam to Go Home

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