Participants
Food as Business
Musa Dağdeviren: Chef & Owner, Çiya
Mehmet Gürs: chef & owner, Mikla
Selin Rozanes: Culinary Experience Specialist, Turkish Flavours
Didem Şenol: Chef & Owner, Lokanta Maya
Tangör Tan: Istanbul Yiyecek İçecek Grubu (İYİG)/ Mikla, Agricultural Engineer, Product Researcher
Food as Idea
Nilhan Aras: Food culture researcher, Editor in chief, MetroGastro
Cem Erol: Head Chef, Culinary Arts Academy
Levon Bağış: Wine Expert/Food Writer (Obur), Kav Wines/Agos
R. İhsan Eliaçık: Author (interviewed about the Earth Tables movement)
Selin Kutucular, Cookbook Author (Büyükada Yemekleri, Istanbul Sofraları)
Aylin Öney Tan: Food Columnist (Fork & Cork) & Independent Scholar, Hürriyet Daily News
Takuhi Tovmasyan Zaman: Cookbook Author (Sofranız Şen Olsun)
Food as Cause
Sitare Baras: Founding member, Turkish Culinary Association
Semi Hakim: Chef, Gastronomika
Leyla Kabasakal: President, Slow Food/Balkon Bahçeleri
Zeynep Kakınç: Turkish Friends of the Kitchen Association, President
Defne Koryürek: Leader, Slow Food/Fikir Sahibi Damaklar
Hilal Nuhoğlu: Turkish Cuisine Foundation, General Director
Güray Tezcan: Activist/Graduate Student, Food not Bombs
Ayfer Yavi: Co-president, Slow Food/Yağmur Böreği
Food in Daily Life
Alin Gülbenkyan, Homemaker (from Istanbul)
Gould & Kılıç families (Alaska, Turkey)
Ayla Kılıç, Izzy Handy
C. Engin Kılıç
Ayten Kılıç, Homemaker (from Trabzon)
Magda Masanoviç: Homemaker (from Istanbul)
Polatdemir family (from Adıyaman)
Süleyman Polatdemir
Kezban Polatdemir, Homemaker
Usta & Bahadır Families (from Trabzon)
Yadigar Usta, Homemaker
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