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Headline: Take piyaz on your picnic
Byline: Faye Levy
Edition; Magazine
Section: Features
Page: 24
Friday, August 8, 2003 -- 'White beans are one of the main elements
of Turkish cooking," said Dogan, our tourist guide in Istanbul, "and
piyaz is one of the most typical Turkish dishes."
Piyaz, he explained, is a white bean salad flavored with onions and
plenty of parsley and dressed with olive oil and lemon juice. The
savory salad is topped with black olives and hard-boiled egg wedges.
In Turkey you find piyaz on street carts, where it might be part of
a "meal deal" - you also get ground meat kebabs, as well as a glass
of tangy liquid …
