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सौंफ़ वाली स्पिरिट्सAnise & Herbal Spirits↳ from Turkey
Turkey's 'lion's milk', distilled twice with aniseed. Drunk slowly through a long meal of meze and fish.
Mixed with water and ice, with meze.
For readers of legal drinking age. Please drink responsibly.
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Powder-fine coffee simmered in a small pot (cezve) and served unfiltered with the grounds settling in the cup. UNESCO lists it as intangible heritage.
Salted yoghurt drink, Turkey's national drink; doogh is Iran's fizzy minty version.
İskender serves döner slices on bread with tomato sauce, sizzling butter and yoghurt.
Layered filo with nuts and syrup; Gaziantep's pistachio baklava is protected.
Crisp 'Turkish pizza'.
Tart red powder used like lemon.
Greece's anise spirit. Adding water turns it cloudy white (the 'louche effect').
The Levant's anise spirit, distilled from grapes, often three times, and aged in clay jars.
The aperitif of the French south, created after absinthe was banned.
The 'green fairy': a strong herbal spirit banned in many countries in the early 1900s and legal again since the 1990s. Its supposed hallucinogenic effect was a myth.
Sweet Italian anise liqueur.
Scandinavia's caraway-flavoured spirit. Norwegian Linie aquavit is aged in casks that cross the equator by ship.