Field Notes

Dispatches from the road. The stories behind the recipes, the makers, and the land.

Spring 2024

A Morning at the Alaçatı Herb Market

A first-person account of arriving at 6am with a local cook, learning the names of herbs, the politics of a good stall, and why the best produce never sees the afternoon sun.

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Autumn 2023

What Olive Oil Production Taught Us About Patience

On visiting a small family press in the Aegean—why cold-press matters, why they refuse to rush the harvest, and what patience actually smells like in a stone room.

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Summer 2023

Why We Always Eat Breakfast with Local Families in Cappadocia

On the Turkish breakfast table as cultural document—what's on it, who made it, and what an array of twenty small plates reveals about a place and its people.

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