Join Elliot Ossanna for sohbet (chatting), where he will prepare and serve Turkish Coffee, and share traditional stories related to Turkish culture and cuisine.

There is a Turkish phrase "a cup of coffee holds 40 years of memories in it". The origin story is that a famed Ottoman barista refused an order to not serve coffee to a Greek man, and exactly 40 years later he was released by that same Greek man during a war between Turkiye and Greece. It's a short story, so I'll probably tell a few more, like the "Turks come from wolves" story, and the origin story behind why the Turkish word for "Ms." is literally "My Khan".