Camili Muslim worshipers and honey bees have a few things in common, they both love bright colors, flora, and elaborate geometry.
A famous Turkish honey saying, “He who handles honey licks his fingers,” must not have considered he-who-practices-Ramazan, the Muslim holiday of fasting. As we open hives and begin harvesting honey this month, my beekeeper friends look at me miserably, their fingers all sticking without any licking! (more…)
Cows pattern the hillside. From a distance they appear like a strings of ants.
It’s nine p.m., and even with the full moon I can see thousands of stars. I am at 2,300 meters (about 7,500 feet) and I am walking into a dark long shed. In the darkness, I smell hot humid boiled milk. I keep walking into a deep throaty smell of fermentation. Finally I end in a smell that is cold, aged, salty. The lights shoot on and giant warm orbs of gruyere cheese glow from the shelves. All around me men suit up and start pulling the cheeses from the shelves, salting, spinning, wiping, drying… and to think just five minutes ago I thought I was headed to bed! (more…)
Catherine de Medici Jaffee is a lunatic about honey culture in the Caucasus. You can most frequently find her jumping on a mountain, running from angry bees, cooking in villages, hitching on dirt roads, or joking with Turkcell about her internet woes.
Cat is joined by Claire, an artist, photographer, writer, and globe wanderer. You're most likely to find her upside down, yodeling from a mountaintop, making tragic mistakes in Turkish, or eating meat for Cat.
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