Turkey Travel: Marzipan
February 7th, 2010
Sevim Işgűder
If you’re familiar with the Bebek district of Istanbul you will, no doubt, have sampled the wonderful Badem Esmesi, (Marzipan Sweets), made by Sevim Işgűder.
Her family have been making the marzipan to their own receipe since 1904.
Look carefully at her hands. Although they have been working hard, for over sixty years, are they not the delicate hands of a princess?
You may not admire the habit of smoking. Today it is unfashionable, but observe closely how she holds her cigarette. It is the acme of sophistication, timeless, and from an age of greater grace than today.
