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When Cornucopia launched in 1992, its aim was to step beyond the picture postcard to capture Turkey in all its infinite variety. Interiors, travel, food, wine, people and places – all these and more would find expression in fine writing and beautiful photography.

18/07/2025

And it’s out! Cornucopia’s pin-up cover! Get your digital subscription for a preview or subscribe now to receive it at your doorstep. Photo: Monica Fritz Words: Thomas Roueché

12/05/2025

Andrew Finkel, author of The Adventure of the Second Wife, will be doing a hybrid presentation: ‘Constantinople in Olympia: How the nineteenth century Eastern Question was transformed by spectacle, song and dance’, at the Royal Anthropology Institute. Register if you are in London or online through the link in our profile. 👆🏽 On Boxing Day 1893, 32,251 travellers descended on Constantinople, not Istanbul’s historical peninsula, but rather a colossal replica of the city, constructed under the vast glass-and-iron canopy of Olympia in West London. For a multitude unlikely to make the journey across Europe, Constantinople in London represented the real thing. Passengers alighting at Addison Road station were invited to board a caique to ferry them down an imitation Bosphorus, through a torch-lit Byzantine cistern, into an ersatz Golden Horn. Twice daily for nearly a year, a cast of 2,000 performed Constantinople or The Revels of the East – A Grand Terpsichorean, Romantic and Lyric Spectacle, and Aquatic Pageant, in Two Acts and Six Tableaux. Orientalist for sure, the extravaganza helped reshape the popular image of the Ottoman empire at a time when the reputation of Abdülhamid II was at a low and Great Game machinations at their height. It also gave birth to other ‘Constantinoples’, from Buffalo to Budapest, and while few traces of these simulacra remain, they arguably created an exotic, indelible, fairy-tale image of the city in the Western imagination. Shaped by commerce and love of spectacle, the performances at Olympia also blazed an all too curious trail to today’s mass tourism.

20/04/2025

The Anglo-Turkish Society are offering a fascinating talk by Ekaterina Aygun on Emigré artists from the Former Russian Empire. Not too late to book a place. Tuesday April 22nd - link in bio

12/04/2025

Thank you and for the exceptional talk last night hosted by the Belgium consulate. His new novel, The Adventure of the Second Wife can be ordered through our website.
“A beautifully crafted book, a detective story that is also part history, part travelogue, part love letter to a city which has been the writer’s home for close on half a century… Finkel is a master guide, his prose elegant, and often elegiac”
John Murray Brown in Cornucopia magazine.
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30/03/2025

İyi Bayramlar from 📷

05/02/2025

Go to our blog, (link in bio) and read about Istanbul’s new luxurious experience by Alexandra de Cramer.
‘Why not usher in 2025 with a revitalizing initiation bath at the iconic Zeyrek Çinili Hamam?’
Photos by Monica Fritz

18/01/2025

Read about Malika Browne’s exciting travels on a stallion through the dramatically beautiful Tien Shan mountains as she joins one of Alexandra Tolstoy’s escapades. photo

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