Thursday, November 20, 2008

Turkish Delights

Photo courtesy seriouseats.com

So I'm a reader. I read website, books, magazines, nutrition labels...if it has words, I read it. This became especially apparent to me a couple weeks back when I crashed my car. Some brain contusions ensued and anytime I read something a terrible wave of nausea would overpower me. It made me realize that I spend most of my day reading. Needless to say, I became bedridden.

I digress...

So I read. I especially love children's books even though I've long left the childhood club. One of my all time favorites is the Narnia series, HERE. Typical answer, but true. However, for whatever reason, foodie that I am, I never paid much attention to the Turkish Delights that Edmund can't seem to keep his hands off of...that is until a couple days ago when I ran across a post on seriouseats about them HERE.

They seem to contain gelatin, which is a bit of a downer for us vegetarian folk, but I'm still intrigued.

For more information on Turkish Delights, check out the Wikipedia page HERE and the google search links HERE.

Enjoy!

NAOmni

2 comments:

Kerry said...

Hi! Thanks for linking to my post on SeriousEats. I just wanted to add that I've heard that really authentic, excellent Turkish Delight is made without gelatin, and just incorporates starch and sugar as thickeners. So that's good news!

Not Another Omnivore said...

Thanks for the heads up!