Post by David Drew on Jul 8, 2011 17:35:20 GMT -6
Azul fellow Ataturkians,
well, returning after what seems like a long absence... with more mad and perhaps certifiably strange ideas. Nice to see Hakan's recipes - perhaps we should really go on with the restaurant idea?
My latest interest has developed around the Bektashi Sufi's and Alevi's, combined with a slowly developing enquiry into the Ottoman Empire....
"There are five kinds of people:
Gentle men who give but don't eat;
Generous men who eat and give;
Mean men who eat and don't give;
Hungry men who can neither give nor eat;
Terrible, ambitious men who eat and do not give
- and work to stop others from giving."
- Haji Bektash Veli
well, returning after what seems like a long absence... with more mad and perhaps certifiably strange ideas. Nice to see Hakan's recipes - perhaps we should really go on with the restaurant idea?
My latest interest has developed around the Bektashi Sufi's and Alevi's, combined with a slowly developing enquiry into the Ottoman Empire....
"There are five kinds of people:
Gentle men who give but don't eat;
Generous men who eat and give;
Mean men who eat and don't give;
Hungry men who can neither give nor eat;
Terrible, ambitious men who eat and do not give
- and work to stop others from giving."
- Haji Bektash Veli