Galata's ice cream master, Erkan Gozal, specializes in the "ice cream show," flipping and swapping cones, toying with the customers and adding a sense of whimsy to the Long Beach scoop shop.

high angle view of woman relaxing in foam. Ask anyone who has been to a hammam, or bathhouse in Turkey and they will tell you that they have never felt so clean as after a traditional Turkish bath.

Loqhum, a Turkish candy shop in Garden Grove, opened inside Fresh Choice Marketplace in May, dazzling customers with spectacular candies straight from Istanbul. The candy is shipped in small batches ...

Shoppers from Bulgaria and Greece have flooded into Turkey to go on shopping sprees due to the country's declining lira currency. Turkey is currently in economic crisis, as inflation has climbed to ...

In this week’s Shop Talk column, read about two new local restaurants, including one with a 100% plant-based menu, and a new women’s clothing store. SPALTI SPACE BECOMES GREEK-TURKISH RESTAURANT … ...

In her coffee shop in Alexandria, Va., Gizem Salcigil White channels grief into a donation drive to aid victims of the earthquakes in Turkey and Syria. The suffering caused by the earthquakes in ...

The charity shop owner claimed it was physically impossible that he had committed sexual assault, as he only had one testicle and only four women had accused him. Over the course of a year-long ...

Many cultures drink coffee, but each drinks it in their own way. In Italy, they have tiny espresso cups of coffee and down it quickly. In the U.S., we have huge cups and drink it on the go. In Turkey, ...

Making Turkish coffee the traditional way is a beautiful process, as demonstrated by Lasha Takalandze in the recently opened Penny’s Coffee Shop, the business he owns with his wife. Takalandze heats ...

My father always told me that you eat with your eyes first, and LOKUM is most certainly a feast in that regard. Ornate chandeliers hang from high ceilings over beautifully tiled floors, and the ...

The ice cream flips, twists and floats just out of reach, attached to one end of a long silver scooping staff being controlled by a professional trickster on the other side of the counter. The second ...