GREAT TASTE will journey all over the world on our next show. First, to Turkey where in
The Memory Kitchen (The New Yorker, April 19, 2010), Elif Batuman takes us on a journey through her native country. The article is part Ms. Batuman rediscovering her ethnic heritage, part a portrait of Musa Dağdeviren, a chef engaged in preserving the regional cuisines of Turkey, another part travelogue, and finally, an amazing look at a culture through Batuman's experiences with foods that awaken her "food memory." As Dwight Garner wrote in the review of Batuman's book, The Possessed, "You want to feel what she’s feeling. ... It’s a deep pleasure to read over her shoulder."
Batuman, a first-generation Turkish-American was born in New York City and grew up in New Jersey. She graduated from Harvard and at Stanford, where she currently teaches, completed a doctoral program in comparative literature. You can share her adventures at
http://www.elifbatuman.net/.
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