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Wrong culture? Ayvalik retained Greek influences much longer than the
rest of Aegean Turkey, and some of the older people still speak Greek.
Most recipes for Aegean fish must predate the Turkish invasion - well,
the potatoes in that one don't, but otherwise Odysseus could have had
it.

I've often wondered whether, but generally projected that the janissaries
were fed a fairly standard rural Ottoman Turkish diet. Even though they
were overwhelmingly nonTurk, most dragooned from the nonMuslim population
of the Balkans and Euxine littoral, their "draft" seems to have been an
early childhood sort of thing, leaving them young enough to adapt to
Turkish (or their own institutional) customs, diet, etc..



Ayvalik is one hell of a nice place...

I hadn't thought of this before, but the Turkish kettledrum doesn't
derive from the janissaries' cooking pots: wrong shape. Turkish
cauldrons are cylindrical, flaring out at the bottom, with a rounded
base, not simple hemispheres like a kettledrum. So is there a cooking
pot from some other culture that became the ancestor of the naker/
kettledrum?

On 22 Apr 2004 13:48:45 GMT, (bogus address)
wrote:


I hadn't thought of this before, but the Turkish kettledrum doesn't
derive from the janissaries' cooking pots: wrong shape. Turkish
cauldrons are cylindrical, flaring out at the bottom, with a rounded
base, not simple hemispheres like a kettledrum. So is there a cooking
pot from some other culture that became the ancestor of the naker/
kettledrum?

This is getting a bit OT, but I don't remember ever seeing a
hemispherical kettledrum. Modern ones look parabolic, and antiques
(and those raised over 18th century molds) are flatter than
hemispheric.

I suppose there might be transitional ones somewhere that are between.

Sorry for the digression.



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