オスマン帝国の料理
オスマン料理の中心は、帝国の首都だったイスタンブールであり、帝国の宮廷や地中海のエリートが帝国全土から地域毎の料理を各々持ち寄って、一緒に洗練された料理の伝統を築いていった料理である:
...despite the disintegration of the Ottoman political empire, we can still see the survival of a large region which could be called the Ottoman culinary empire. The Balkans, Greece, Anatolia and the Fertile Crescent... are common heirs to what was once the Ottoman life-style, and their cuisines offer treacherous circumstantial evidence of this fact.