Recipes from the
Heart of Anatolia.

The Story Behind
the Flavours

I'm Muge Kayaci — a home cook, food writer, and obsessive keeper of recipes that refuse to be forgotten. I grew up trailing my grandmother through the olive groves of İzmir, watching her transform a handful of wild herbs and dried pulses into meals that felt like entire conversations.

Her village kitchen in the Aegean foothills was my first classroom. No written recipes — just instinct, memory, and a deep respect for the land. When she passed, I realized how many of those dishes were quietly disappearing with her generation.

mugekayaci is my answer to that loss. Here, I document and celebrate vanishing Anatolian recipes — testing each one in a modern kitchen while honouring every tradition behind it — so that cooks anywhere in the world can bring these flavours to their own tables.