Milk - based traditional Turkish desserts

Tradition is an important issue when considering food which can be described at different levels within social groups as small as a family or as a function of time scale. Traditional foods can be related to special events such as weddings, religious days specific for each country, and are often concerned with local foods and artisan foods referring to specific ingredients, location of the production and know-how. It could be the food made by grandmothers or by the native people of a country (ethnic food) (Cayot, 2007; Trichopoulou et al., 2007). Turkish cuisine is considered as one of the three richest and oldest cooking traditions of the world together with French and Chinese. It has a rich and variegated tradition of soups, olive oil dishes, rice Arzu Akpinar-Bayizit*, Tulay Ozcan, Lutfiye Yilmaz-Ersan