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Anatolian home cooking in Istanbul — a terrace table of meze, the mains that followed, and what was left at the end.

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Eleven hammered steel bowls of meze ringed around a tiled plate of hummus, with a folded sesame flatbread on a calligraphy-painted plateThe table, laid Hummus under dressed greens, a platter of grilled meat over rice and freekeh and a copper pot of chickpeas on a dark marble terrace tableThe mains arrive A marble table halfway through the meal, meze bowls half emptied and a calligraphy plate scattered with freekeh and pomegranateMid-meal A hand holding a kraft paper cutlery sleeve printed with a tile emblem and a line drawing of spoon, knife and forkThe cutlery sleeve