This book is a selection of the best local dishes from the Turkish provinces where Sahrap Soysal spent her childhood. As her food loving engineer father moved from one construction project to another, Sahrap's own love of food and knowledge of her country's regional cuisines evolved, laying the foundations of her later career as a food writer.

She has adapted the finest recipes of Turkish regional cuisines that are threatened by oblivion today to suit the modern day kitchen and simplified dishes so that everyone can make even the one that look most difficult. This book is a real cookery tale, leavened with love and garnished with happy memories.