Food

Anyone who has worked in the Litigation Department at MoFo Palo Alto for any length of time knows about Bryan's food preferences.  You therefore would not be surprised to hear that we've been eating lots of street food these past few days.  Let's just say that we have not been sampling too much of Istanbul's haute cuisine!  Today was a prime example.  

The highlight had to be our lunch at the famed meatball palace Meshur Filibe Koftecisi.  This was a kick-ass meal.  We had the only two items on the menu: the white beans, onions, and tomato starter, and the meatballs.  I never would have thought that beans, onions, and tomatoes would be so good.  Fantastic.  And the meatballs were amazing too.  Go here! 

These rice pudding and ice cream concoctions at a street-side dessert dive sure were not bad either:

We also discovered that McDonald's delivers in Istanbul.  How great is that?

Going back to yesterday, have you ever heard of kokorec?  Neither had I.  Turns out that grilled sheep intestines chopped with peppers and tomatoes can be quite tasty.  Trust me.  Bryan was right on this one.

I am not sure what tomorrow holds.  Those of you who know Bryan as a tree-hugging, Berkeley-educated, Birkenstock-wearing, granola-eating kind of guy might be mortified by what I witnessed today.  Bryan wants to take our food adventures to new levels of locavorism; he's also expressed a new-found interest in an eat-what-you-kill ethic.  There's just no easy way to say this, but I watched Bryan take some target practice today on the banks of the Sea of Marmara.    

I feel bad for anything that gets in his cross-hairs tomorrow.