TURKISH FLAVOURS
Vali Konağı Cad. Uğur Apt 14/3
Nişantaşı - Istanbul TURKEY
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Phone : +90 532 218 06 53
selin@turkishflavours.com
turkishflavours@gmail.com
OUR TEAM
Selin Rozanes , a Culinary Experiences and Travel Specialist is a native of Istanbul. After Robert College High School she studied Tourism and Hotel Management at the Bosphorus University.
Her love of food and travel has developed into the “Turkish Flavours” project in 2006. After a long career in the travel industry, she began designing and leading culinary itineraries around Istanbul and Turkey including cooking programs on Turkish Cuisine, local food market and street food tours. At her hands-on Turkish cooking classes in her authentic 1930's Turkish home , participants experience Turkish culture while learning and understanding Turkish culinary traditions. Cooking classes with Turkish - Sephardic menus from Selin's family recipes are also experienced at Selin’s kitchen.
A self-taught home chef and gastronomically inquisitive person, Selin has organized many hands on Turkish Cooking classes for visitors from 30 different countries. She is a member of Slow Food, the International Culinary Tourism Association and Mutfak Dostları Derneği(Turkish Kitchen Friends Ass). She speaks English, Turkish, French and some Spanish.
Her vast knowledge about Istanbul and Turkey and what it offers to travelers is always an asset to Turkish Flavours guests.
She can help designing the perfect cultural sightseeing and the best culinary experiences for travelers touring in Turkey.
Selin has lots of experience as Travel Consultant and has organized many luxurious, individualized holidays to fit specific needs . She has coordinated many tours and events for Abercrombie and Kent ,API, Virtuoso,YPO,CEO and WPO travellers in Turkey. She still acts as an Individual Travel Consultant and can give advice, help custom design itineraries , pick best guides , coordinate reservations at luxirious accommodations and enhance your travel to Turkey.
Aylin Öney Tan , has studied architecture and conservation of historic structures in Turkey, Italy and the UK. She practiced her profession for 15 years but her passion for food and travel eventually led her to write on food. Since 2003 she holds a weekly food column at Cumhuriyet, a prestigious national daily. She contributes to various food magazines. She has been a Jury member of the Slow Food Award 2000-2003, her nominees receiving awards. She contributes to Terra Madre and Presidia projects as the leader of the Ankara Convivium. She gave consultancy to Channel 4 documentary enacting the funeral dinner of King Midas and appeared in the Turkey episode of the ‘Diaries of a Foodie’ of National Geographic. She won the Sophie Coe award on food history in 2008 by her article "Poppy: Potent yet Frail" presented previously at the Oxford Symposium on Food and Cookery. She has worked as curator for the Antalya City Museum, Culinary Culture Section and currently working for another City Museum in Istanbul, again for the culinary exhibition. She recently contributed to ‘The Encyclopedia of Food Cultures of the World’, by writing the entry for Turkey, due to appear from Greenwood Publications.
Annie Gelmuyden Pertan is born and raised in Istanbul, Anna Maria Geelmuyden hails from a multi-cutural heritage and is fluent in English, French, Turkish and Greek.
She got her Candidat Magister from the Department of History and Philosophy at the University of Oslo, Norway and her Bachelor of Arts in Art History at the Departement of Literature and Humanities at Sorbonne, Université de Paris, France. In 1974, she started working as an Art Director for films, and soon segued into physical production as well as production design, earning several awards in the process. She also has worked on numerous food commercials.
She has done the production design for a cookbook, RECIPIES FROM PRINKIPO ISLAND . The book won the Gourmand Best First Cookbook 2005 Award in local competition in Turkey, and later the Best Local Cookbook in the World Award. Annie leads our Street Food Tours, Food Market visits and organizes home hosted dinners at her typical Turkish house next to the Pera Market behind Istiklal avenue in Istanbul.
FROM THE PRESS AND THE WEB
ON THE EGE
THE AUSTRALIAN
SPICELINES
FOODIES GUIDE TO ISTANBUL-BRETT ATKINSON
THE AGE - MELBOURNE
COURTENAY DUNK
TRIP ADVISOR
QANTAS
DAILY EXPRESS
STARS AND STRIPES
INSAITABLE CRITIC GAEL GREENE
GAZİANTEP SABAH GAZETESİ
THE "WE LIKE" LINKS
TURKEY TRAVEL PANNER
SPICELINES
ESBELLİ EVİ
SLOW FOOD
GUL EVI - SAFRANBOLU
FRUIT HERITAGE
MAUREEN FANT
CHOCOLATIER DAVID LEBOVITZ'S GREAT PARIS BASED FOOD BLOG
KITCHEN ARTS & LETTERS
TULUMBA- For all kinds of Turkish Goodies
ERENLER SOFRASI - Tastiest restaurant in Bodrum
LIBRARIE GOURMANDE
BOOKS FOR COOKS
ALIYA LEEKONG
COOKING SCHOOL IN ITALY : We offer a number of different itineraries to suit participants of all cooking levels, from the novice to the advanced.
Our TURKISH FLAVOURS tours are operated with the collaboration of Başarantur and Argeus Tourism and Travel companies.
