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To celebrate Mother Earth Day and Local Food Week, there was free grub on offer in Bodrum market today. Under a banner proclaiming 'Herşey Dahil İsraf Hariç' which I can roughly translate as 'Everything Included Except Waste' - soup, bread and mandarins were handed out to an expectant crowd. Observing the spirit of the day - the soup was 'çercöp' which is made with whatever vegetable leftovers you have on the day, usually the stalks of celery and leek that might otherwise get thrown away, and the bread was 'peksimet' - which I think we would call rusks or the sort of hard tack, dried bread that sailors or travellers would take on a long journey.
As we are entering a time of ridiculous over consumption, this was a good reminder to buy local food, avoid imported goods and use everything up.
