Dalaman food and drink guide
Dalaman has squarely missed out on the epicurean blessing that was bestowed on the remainder of Turkey . This is understandable as the town is little more than a gateway airport. Regionally the food differs little from that detailed in Bodrum's cuisine. All is not lost however as there are still a couple ways to rid yourself of your remaining lira while waiting for your flight home.
Turkish Delight (lokum)
When describing the lives' of the 18 th century Ottoman Sultans the last thing you expect is a tale of privation. There was however one hardship that needed addressing: impervious, chewy confectionary. To ease the strain on the Sultan's jaw Ali Muhiddin, Constantinople 's finest confectioner, came up with rahat lokum , 'the comfortable morsel', or as it's more commonly known Turkish Delight. Today these squashy cubes of solidified sugar, water and corn flour come in myriad varieties form rosewater through to orange, and studded with toasted pistachios, walnuts and almonds.
Baklava
The Turks are adamant in their claim that they invented baklava, then again so are the Greeks.and just about every other Eastern Mediterranean country. Whatever the provenance Turkey has mastered these honey-drenched parcels of filo pastry interwoven with crushed pistachio nuts. But they didn't stop there and today baklava comes in many guises, perhaps the most salivatory of which is urma. With a cross section resembling the offspring of a relationship between a length of industrial cable and a Shredded Wheat, urma wraps threads of filo dough around a sausage of pistachio nuts, before the obligatory sousing in honeyed syrup.
