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Turkish Delight is one of the most successful films of the Dutch cinema. people saw the film, corresponding to about 27% of the population of the Netherlands at the time.¹

It was a box of Turkish Delight?rose-flavored candy dusted with powdered sugar, nestled in a blush-pink package that glinted with the gilded minarets of Topkapi. The fragrant mystery of the East bulged within, in 20 plump little squares.²

More traditional versions in Arabic countries may be flavored with lemon or rosewater, and Americans are not very familiar with rose water as a flavoring. Many Americans find such versions of Turkish Delight both sticky and soapy.³

Asexual reproduction of the new cultivar ?Turkish Delight? Since that time, under careful observation, the unique characteristics of the new cultivar have been uniform, stable and reproduced true to type in successive generations of asexual reproduction.⁴

Last week U.S. art lovers got a chance to judge for themselves. At a Manhattan gallery, 36 of Hasan’s paintings were on exhibit—delightful studies of musicians, kings, carousels and clowns—as bright and intricate as fine Turkish rugs.⁵

This market restaurant serves quite a few Turkish delights, such as killer gyros and shawarma sandwiches whose spice-sprinkled, yogurt-slathered, lettuce-bedecked fillings strain their pita casings. Crisp, flaky boreks are phyllo pastries filled with meat or with vegetables and cheese.⁶

Rahat lokum (”comfortable morsel”), nowadays called simply lokum, or Turkish Delight, was an instant hit, especially at the palace. Ali Muhiddin became a celebrity overnight as palace bigwhigs (or, more usually, their lackeys and gofers) traipsed down the hill from Topkapi Palace to Emin?n? on the Golden Horn to buy boxes of Comfortable Morsels to thrill the jaded palates of Ottoman potentates.⁷