Peta Boy

For the past couple of years, I’m longing to get my teeth into this confection, called Turkish Delight also called lokum or loukoum – made from sugar and starch. It is generally flavored with lemon and rosewater that gives a characteristic pale pink color. It has a soft, jelly-like and sometimes sticky consistency, and is often packaged and eaten in small cubes which are dusted with icing sugar or copra (nothing but coconut, similar to Tamil name) to prevent sticking. Some varieties contain small nut pieces, usually hazelnut, pistachio or walnuts. Other flavors include mint and cinnamon. In the production process soapwort (a kind of flower) may be used as an additive, serving as an emulsifier. So anyone there going to Istanbul?