The Chef · Azra · Istanbul
Topkapı Sarayı (Topkapı Palace)
Everyone photographs the jewels; I stand in the kitchens. Understanding how they fed a whole court from these chimneys tells you more about this city than any throne.
The Ottoman palace on the point. I come for the vast imperial kitchens that once fed thousands a day — the most interesting room in the building to a cook.
— Azra, The Chef
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