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What makes Indonesian people love Turkish cuisine?
Turkish cuisine is in the top five in the world. For that alone, most everyone agrees that Turkish foods are superb.
Religion also plays a pivotal role here. Most Turkish and Indonesians are Muslim, thus sharing a similar diet. That’s why Indonesians trust, and eventually like, Turkish foods.
What foods do you usually cook at home?
I cook meat pretty often: lots of steak and beef wellington – my daughter’s favorite. I also love to cook spaghetti with seafood. My cheating food is bitter-bean fried rice, but for occasional indulgence only (laugh).
I cook about twice a week at home. My wife is the main cook in the household.
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What is Ottoman cuisine? What makes it different from Turkish cuisine?
Some seem to be mistaken Turkey, as a nation, is the present-day Ottoman empire. Well, the center was in Turkey, but its territory spanned almost all of the Balkans, the Middle East, and even North African countries.
Their food cultures interacted and influenced each other, thus enriched the Ottoman cuisine. In a nutshell, Ottoman cuisine synthesized the regional culinary cultures that the empire conquered. On the other hand, Turkish cuisine is the cuisine of the Turkish nation.
