Making dolmas, talking about home

5th April diary

“Ok, shall we go this way,” says Nil. She always gives directions like this.

I’ve come to meet my friend Nil, who has a supper club tomorrow — her first! — and she’s going to show me how to cook Aegean Turkish food: how to make dolmas, lentil koftas, borek. She’ll make the salads and so on tomorrow and will, hopefully, give me the recipes. 

She lives in N…