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Istanbul: Exploring the Tastes of Two Continents
On this week-long culinary experience in collaboration with Culinary Backstreets, we’ll be studying the city of Istanbul through its kitchens—investigating the disparate influences that form the great mosaic that is modern-day Istanbul cuisine.
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A parade leader gestures with one hand and brandishes a bead-shaker in the other.

How to Dress Like an Ottoman

A 19th-century style guide displays the diversity of an empire.
by Noor Al-Samarrai
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The excavated mosaics.

Found: Vulgar Mosaics in a Roman Latrine

They offered bathroom-goers some raunchy entertainment.
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November 8, 2018