SIFF: The Turkish Way

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Spain | 2016 | 120 minutes | Luis Gonzalez

Internationally renowned restaurateurs the Roca Brothers, stars of last year’s scrumptious Cooking Up a Tribute, return for a tour through the diverse culinary cultures of Turkey, diving into the savory cuisine at the heart of one of the world’s major crossroads.

In an exuberant follow-up to last year’s scrumptious, globe-trotting documentary Cooking Up a Tribute, director Luis Gonzalez again teams with the Roca Brothers—Joan, Josep, and Jordi, owners of Catalonia’s Celler de Can Roca, current holder of Restaurant Magazine’s “Best Restaurant in the World” honor—to take a five-week tour across Turkey, diving into the rich, diverse culinary cultures of one of the world’s major crossroads. Setting out to honor the influences on Turkish cuisine by developing a new menu using locally produced ingredients, and to invigorate Can Roca’s own menu with new energies, the three brothers cross the nation. They seek new ideas in places as diverse as the bustling streets and marketplaces of Istanbul and the vineyards of Cappadocia, openly engaging with and learning from the sommeliers, chefs, and farmers that drive one of the world’s most tradition-bound yet evolving gastronomic cultures. From disparate Arabic, Asian, and European influences to the exciting recent development of New Anatolian Cuisine, the brothers Roca embrace an ancient nation on the cusp of a food revolution, their restless creativity in turn making their own Can Roca not only one of the world’s greatest restaurants, but a restaurant truly of the world.

Director Biography: Luis Gonzales directs his second feature documentary in The Turkish Way. His debut film, Cooking Up a Tribute (2015), was nominated for SIFF’s Documentary Award.

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