That is the Turkish word for stuffed — they use it to describe grape leaves stuffed with rice as well as local taxi-buses. And us, after all this Turkish food. We have eaten:
–Lamb stewed in tomatoes
–Chicken kebabs that put all others to shame
–Lavosh bread right out of a wood-fired oven
–Baba ghanoush, yogurt sauce, hummus and spicy couscous
–Tiny lamb-filled ravioli in yogurt sauce
–Tomatoes! Oh, the tomatoes!
–Cucumbers, olives, peaches, melons, all grown near where they’re eaten
–Fresh fish right out of the Bosphorus
Writing this list has made me hungry and I just finshed eating my eggs…