The food of Istanbul is as rich, colourful and multilayered as the ancient culture that created it. Rebecca Seal successfully manages the unimaginable: bringing it to us in its full magnificent glory. - Yotam Ottolenghi Walk the streets of Istanbul and you ll see a city of wonderful contradictions: step out of a stylish modern bar and you re likely to turn a corner and find lamb kebabs roasting over coals on a tiny food cart, in the shadow of towering minarets