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"Curtis says his most memorable meal in Istanbul was at Namlı Gurme in the waterfront Karaköy neighborhood, where—even at breakfast—he wanted to try dinner dishes like a carrot haydari that he likens to a raita but with shaved, cooked carrots instead of cucumber; he could never find a haydari as delicious afterward, and that memory helped inspire the garlic-lemon-dill-parsley haydari he put on Hazel’s menu." - Gabe Hiatt