The Turkish city built on ‘green gold’
In Gaziantep, pistachios are more than a crop. BBC Travel follows them from the orchards to the baklava trays, and into the moments that shape local life.
Few places are as closely tied to a single ingredient. Orchards surround the city, bakers walk the groves before harvest to choose their nuts, and the green kernels end up in baklava and katmer. Here, sweets also mark life’s milestones, from births and weddings to farewells. It is the same landscape our pistachio supplier in Nizip works in, and the reason we source our pistachios here.
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