Stay at holiday villas in Turkey and enjoy the food. Turkish cuisine is famous throughout the world, and is considered one of the 3 pre-eminent cuisines alongside French and Chinese.  There are an amazing variety of recipes and distinctive tastes. Turkey has the unique combination of geography, history and ecology, this reflects in the present culinary lifestyle and culture.

The painstaking preparation of simple but fresh ingredients brings out the richness of their flavours in a way that never fails to delight. The range is enormous, from an array of soups to an astonishing variety of Meze (traditional Turkish appetizers), followed by meat and fish dishes. All Turkish food is prepared from fresh ingredients, often grown organically or raised free range. All this is seasoned with herbs and spices often found locally - oregano, marjoram, and thyme grow wild in profusion on the hills along the Mediterranean coast. The country produces a wide variety of fruits, nuts, and vegetables, and being surrounded by sea on three sides, the range of fish to be found is considerable.

Turkey is located in a crossroad of different continents (Europe, Africa and Asia) and three different seas (The Black Sea, The Aegean and The Mediterranean Sea). The immense big land with its various landscape, climate and fertile soil makes Turkey one of the few countries in the world that can feed its own population and supply the world with various food products.  The influence of the Sultans of the Ottoman Empire has played an important role in the Turkish cuisine. During the Ottoman Empire the Sultans and the supremacy employed more than thousands of kitchen staff and scores of Chefs. In the huge palace kitchens, the kitchen staff had to fulfil the demands of the Sultan with their gastronomic highlights.

Traditional Turkish food is wonderful and it is no surprise that visitors return to holiday villas in Turkey year after year.  

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