Maria Emmektsioglu: In Turkey they will say “it is giauri” and in Greece “the Turkish seed”

It focused on its origins and on some derogatory comments that it has heard in both Greece and neighbouring Turkey. The chef interviewed “Good morning we said?” on Sunday, January 5, 2024 and spoke about her Greek heritage and traditions she maintains. Maria Emmektsioglu revealed that she has received racist comments about her origins in both Turkey and Greece: “Yes, I felt a foreign body. If I say no, it’ll be a lie. And recently that I was in Athens with a company, I heard the word “the Turkish seed”. That’s very insulting. Like in Turkey, not all people are holy, there are some who will say “he is a guauri”, his translation to say it is “the atheist”. They don’t use it anymore. There may be too many now who will say that word, but there is still a chance that you will hear it.” CORVERSE It also expanded on its origins and talked about the decline of the Greek population in Constantinople over the years: “The geneological tree has been made by a great-grandfather since 1613. Nice years and hard years, of course. We were the lucky ones, the generation mine, because we didn’t experience what our parents and grandparents lived through. In all the problems that have existed – and we all know who they are – they have lived and lived in beautiful years, years that Constantinople has had too many Romans. There were periods that had up to 200-300 thousand Romans. Year after year, with events and with all these historical events that have happened, we have reached today when we are about 2.000.” He then said he retains Greek traditions and Greek customs and customs. “More strongly you die”, commented humorously and added: “I personally yes and very many of my friends. I keep them and keep them with too much vigor. Everything, the holidays, the fantail, the swimming pools of souls, Easter, the pie, the basil pie, the sweets, the cod, the garlic, which is a custom Greek. I try to keep everything and mine and Greek try to put them in my everyday life.” At the same time, he referred to the differences between the two kitchens, but also the small variations between Istanbul and other cities in Turkey: “Greek cuisine has fewer spices. Turkey has more spices. That’s the difference between us. In the old days Turkish cuisine had a lot of butter and still has, but Turkey is not only Istanbul, it is also the Aegean that uses olive oil, it is the depths of the East that have no olives to get olive oil, so they have to have livestock, they have their animals, so they have the butter, so you don’t want to necessarily cook with butter.”