Street food

Street food is one of the most delicious ways to get to know a country and its culture. Hürriyet's Gastronomy Jury has ranked the best street food venues in Turkey. Click through for the best of the best...

The production of simit, a New York bagel-like bread covered with sesame seeds, is about to halt in various places due to a skyrocketing rise in sesame seed prices, according to sector players.

Fourth of July is one of the most widely celebrated holidays in the US each year.

A day dedicated to patriotism, barbecues, and sporting red, white and blue - it marks the nation's Founding Fathers adopting the Declaration of Independence, making the United States its own country on 4 July 1776.

One Turkish man says he is determined to make it into the book of Guinness World Records by accomplishing his life-long dream of “making” the biggest döner kebab in the world, weighing three tons. Hakan Soysal, at 42-year-old father of three from the Central Anatolian province of Sivas, has already been accepted as a pre-nominee to the list, Doğan News Agency reported on Feb. 7.

A 45-year-old suspect sought on various charges was captured in an operation carried out by police in the southern province of Adana while indulging in the famous local dish, the Adana kebab, daily Hürriyet reported on Feb. 1.

One of Turkey’s most famous dishes, döner kebap, is also very popular in Australia, especially among those who work at night

If army cook Thomas Deliopoulos had been told a decade ago that one day his food would be the subject of a review in The New York Times, he would have simply laughed out loud.

The European Parliament on Dec. 13 narrowly failed to block a proposal to allow the use of phosphates in doner kebab meat, an additive which critics say is linked to heart disease.

The European Commission proposal for phosphate additive in the doners was adopted, the EP press service announced.

On Tuesday, the draft report against the use of phosphate supplements in the meat for the doner meat was not adopted with the necessary absolute majority of 376 MEPs, although it received the approval of MEPs in the health commission.

The European Parliament on Dec. 12 will vote on whether to allow phosphate additives in doner kebab production – in a decision that will affect thousands of kebab-shop owners across the continent.