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I was invited to a wine and cheese evening at La Tapa restaurant in Bodrum; a glass of bubbly to start then 2 whites and 2 reds paired with 4 tasty cheeses, which gave me 4 ideas for further blog posts on the different cheeses of Turkey, so more on them later. Alongside the cheese plates, a platter of ham arrived on our table of 8. Palma, prosciutto or any pork derived ham is a great treat for those of us living in Turkey so my eyes lit up and I throughly enjoyed my one slice. After a while it became obvious that only 3 of us had tasted the ham and the other 5 were not going to be eating haram pork, all the more for the lucky three.
To cap off a great evening that allowed me to pretend eating cheese and drinking wine was an academic activity because it was accompanied by short lectures, our neighbouring table passed over their untouched plate of ham.
La Tapa is a great place for fixed price lunches and a la carte suppers and now has a charcuterie section where tasty hard-to-source cheesy and porky comestibles can be bought at prices that don't burn one's pocket.
That made my mouth water ...
ReplyDeleteThat worked out well!
ReplyDeleteI'm looking forward to reading about the cheeses.
How fun your table got to enjoy the extra ham. So ham is haram but not wine, apparently. La Tapa sounds like my kind of place.
ReplyDeleteyou have reminded me that I have a smoker to make - and not just for the wild pigs that get delivered every now and again!
ReplyDeleteNo more mercy dashes to Kos to stock up on the pork?
ReplyDeleteB to B, My mouth is watering. Sounds like our kind of place.
ReplyDeleteMmmmm ... different times. I remember stocking up with pathetic streaky bacon from Cos to satisfy our pangs for pork. You've taught me another new word.... 'comestible' - you're brilliant Annie! xxx
ReplyDeleteOh, wow, ham! :) And very fortunate that you were in the company of some not choosing to eat it, too. Must look up La Tapa next time we're in Bodrum.
ReplyDeleteSounds like fun. My sister and I went to a wine tasting here recently with a poetry reading afterward. Does make you feel a little intellectual doesn't it!
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