'VAN BREAKFAST' APPLIED TO THE UNESCO CULTURAL HERITAGE LIST BY OFFICIALS...
Van Yüzüncü Yıl University (YYÜ) and the Provincial Directorate of Culture and Tourism have applied to the Turkish Culture and Tourism Ministry to include Van’s distinctive regional breakfast on the UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage List. The designation would help promote the city’s famous breakfast spread of herbed cheese, made with the plants grown in the plateaus; murtuğa, made with flour, butter and eggs; cacık, made with yogurt and cucumber; milk cream and karakovan honey. In 2014, with the participation of 51,793 people, the record of “the most crowded breakfast table in the world” was broken in Van. Speaking to the state-run Anadolu Agency, YYU Rector Professor Hamdullah Şevli said that the breakfast culture in Van dates back many years in the region. “In our research, we learned that there were places called ‘milk houses’ in 1947 in the city, and these places were opened during the morning prayer. The tradesmen opened their offices in the morning and made their breakfast...