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Kelle Söğüş vs. Kelle Tandır: Face/Off

Post a Comment October 10, 2011 – 9:00 am | Permalink |  Print This Post |

Don’t people just love to fight about food? Punch-ups over which city makes the best pizza, brawls about what’s the right way to barbecue. Louis and Ella nearly called the whole thing off over the pronunciation of the word “tomato.”

In this pugilistic spirit, we took our place at a couple of stools at our favorite back of the fish market corner bar, Asmaaltı, from which to call one of the great barroom debates of these parts: Is a sheep’s head, or kelle, more tasty when boiled and served chilled or roasted and served hot?

Round one. Ding. (Click here to read the rest of this archived review)

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