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The Commercial Appeal, the largest daily newspaper serving the Memphis Metro area, published a story about Turkish cuisine on April 25th, 2012. Christopher Blank, Art Writer for the paper, visited Raindrop Turkish House in Memphis and authored the following article.
Turkish blend: Center shares exotic, diverse flavors of cultural crossroads
By Christopher Blank
Posted April 25, 2012 at 12:01 a.m., updated April 25, 2012 at 12:06 a.m.
The first time I encountered "Turkish Delight" (and this probably goes for most Americans) was while reading C.S. Lewis' essential novel for young readers, "The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe."
In the story, the White Witch ensnares a young boy using a box of what I assumed to be candy. "Each piece was sweet and light to the very center," Lewis described. The child "had never tasted anything more delicious."
Years passed before I learned that Turkish Delight was real -- an exotic sugar-covered confection invented in the 1770s in Istanbul, with a flavored gelatinous center commonly mixed with chopped dates, pistachios and hazelnuts.
On a recent Friday evening, a large box of it was opened before my eyes. For a split second, my thoughts traveled to Narnia.
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