Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Lela is a London-based writer and editor who covers food and drink. In Istanbul, food is a history lesson in its own right.

The best way to truly experience a city’s food culture is to mimic what the locals are indulging in throughout their everyday lives — and Istanbulites are guaranteed to impress in that department. In ...

I live part of the year in Istanbul, and my homecomings there always involve a ravenous re-encounter with lahmacun, that blistered, paper-thin, fire-kissed flatbread topped with spicy ground meat.

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Joanne Shurvell writes about travel, food, culture and fashion. Istanbul, the only city in the world that straddles two continents ...

Heads foggy with jet lag, Andy and I stumble into Zübeyir Ocakbaşı, a kebab house in Istanbul. The grill master is seated behind the enormous copper hood, twisting lamb skewers over screaming orange ...

The reinvention of Turkey’s largest city as a gastronomic hub continues apace – but not at the expense of the unfussy, authentic fare that has long delighted the metropolis. Debensason trained in ...

Several countries lay claim to the kebab, but few do them better than Turkey. There’s shish kebab, adana kebab and of course döner – what the Greeks call gyros – but there’s another kebab I fell in ...