Abstract:

Abstract Turks lived in different geographies throughout history and interacted with many cultures. This situation has caused a constantly changing and developing situation on Turkish cuisine and has created a unique and different culinary culture. The aim of this study is to examine the foods of different periods of Turkish cuisine on the basis of menu contents of restaurants serving Turkish cuisine in Istanbul. The sample of the research consisted of 56 restaurants in Istanbul serving Turkish cuisine and 276 different product types in the menus of these 56 restaurants were examined. Qualitative research methods were used in data collection and analysis. The content on the websites of these restaurants was tried to be analysed. As a result of the periodic analysis of the menus, the restaurants have mostly served the foods from the Ottoman period. The restaurants also offer products from foreign cuisines to a great extent. It has been determined that the most common food in restaurants is "shish kebab" from the Central Asian period. In addition, in the study, the cuisines that Turks have interacted with throughout history have been examined and the foods of the common culinary culture have been tried to be revealed.

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