Golden baked pastries drizzled with syrup served with rich clotted cream, crumbly homemade halvah with roasted pine nuts, baklava with a cheese filling served hot, custards sprinkled with rose water ...

Picture yourself biting into a delicate piece of baklava while sipping Turkish coffee in Istanbul, or savoring a perfect crème brûlée during an afternoon break in a Parisian café. Around the world, ...

A favorite of 16th-century sultans, the syrup-soaked and oft-reinvented sweet is still beloved by Turkish diners today.

Grandeur defines Istanbul: From architectural icons such as Hagia Sophia to the city’s indomitable traffic, Istanbul pulsates with intensity and splendor. Including sweet splendor. Istanbul’s passion ...

Holly Williams samples some just-delicious desserts in Turkey: On the shores of the Bosphorus, the strait of water that divides Europe on one bank from Asia on the ...

Golden baked pastries drizzled with syrup served with rich clotted cream, crumbly homemade halvah with roasted pine nuts, baklava with a cheese filling served hot, custards sprinkled with rose water ...

Muzinie Beitullaieva, owner of Taksim restaurant in Kanata. (Credit: JEAN LEVAC) When Muzinie Beitullaieva immigrated to Canada from Turkey in 2016, she came with a PhD in linguistics and a dream of ...

I visited Mehmet Efendi, a new Turkish dessert shop in Whitechapel, London, and had to share my experience. The variety of treats reminded me of Istanbul’s Hafiz Mustafa, with specialties like ...

Grandeur defines Istanbul: From architectural icons such as Hagia Sophia to the city’s indomitable traffic, Istanbul pulsates with intensity and splendor. Including sweet splendor. Istanbul’s passion ...