Dinner of Herbs: Village Life in 1960s Turkey

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Carla Grissman spent the better part of a year living with a local peasant family in afarming hamlet in remote Anatolia, some 250 km east of Ankara.The hospitality, friendship and sense of inclusion that she received from theinhabitants of the Anatolian village of Uzak Koy created a refuge and hiddenTurkish homeland for Carla. The laughter, camaraderie and generosity of heart,plus the sense of being an honoured member of this community never left her.She kept a private memoir to help keep these chance friendships fresh in her mindand 40 years later they were published as Dinner of Herbs (in 2001).