The Brazilian açaí bowl earned top spot with humble Turkish simit following closely after as the most popular breakfast items around the world. Breakfast culture is one of the best ways to get to know ...

Fifty-eight-year-old Burhan Yilmaz is on his feet for more than 12 hours a day, selling the main fuel for millions of busy Istanbul residents – simit, the legendary Turkish bagels with sesame seeds.

The Turkish word “simit” has entered the Oxford English Dictionary (OED), prompting celebrations on social media as well as calls for a new emoji to represent the circular-shaped bread. The OED, in ...

Few Turks would be surprised to see Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan giving simit to his top advisers and the journalists following him or to read that a Russian oligarch is ordering fresh ...

From top, clockwise: a Nutella achma, tahini pastry, mozzarella poacha, walnut baklava, and a chocolate-raisin pastry. Credit: Photo by Erika Kwee So when I happened upon a Instagram image featuring ...

New Yorkers are fiercely proud of their bagels, with good reason, so when confronted with something that looks like the circular bread, an initial reaction might be skepticism. But we have nothing to ...

A group of Turkish investors is hoping to make simit, a favorite bread of the Balkans, the trendiest starch in New York City. The group, led by Istanbul-based restaurant management company Yemekhane, ...

It seems to be a little known fact in America that Middle Eastern nations are home to some of the world’s most talented bakers, and, locally, exhibit A of that argument is the wealth of Lebanese ...

Like Turkey itself, the simit -- the round, sesame-encrusted bread ring that is a ubiquitous presence on the streets of Istanbul and most other Turkish cities -- is entertaining some very global ...