There are all kinds of ways to look at the world. When you look from the kitchen, especially with the eyes of a little girl, everything appears in a different light. This book looks at a period in Ankara, Turkey, in a different light. This is a capable little girl. The clock of childhood, Şakir Zümre stove, grandfather's garden, aunt's spaghetti...


The Diary of the Cuisine reminds us of a world where everyone is "with a narrow and fixed income" but no one is "poor". Who knows, the recipes in it may be a recipe for such a world...