Try Turkish delight in Turkey

“The Spice Bazaar in Istanbul has hundreds of shops selling Turkish Delight. Walking through this market is a real feast for the eyes. There's candy everywhere and you can even sample the different flavours before settling on your selection. It was too difficult for me to choose which shop to buy from. But the persistence, charm and humour of one of the shopkeepers won me over - he kept insisting I was Pakistani and literally dragged me into his store to show me pictures of his trip to Pakistan, apparently my homeland! After a lot of chit chat, I bought a big box of assorted flavours. I let the shopkeeper make the selections for me as each flavour tasted unbelievable delicious and I just couldn't make up my mind.”

“My mom is fantastic and so when we read the Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe in middle school in the 90’s, she tracked down Turkish delight. When I tried it, I remember “For this a kid sold out their siblings? Doesn’t seem worth it.” Then decades later I moved to Istanbul and tried Haci Bekir Turkish delight (the Hajji Bekir family invented Turkish delight and still has a handful of shops around Istanbul) and the first thing I thought was, “Okay, now I get it.”