Investigation of Local Cuisine Culture in Turkey by Regions and The Importance in Rural Tourism

Abstract

All the civilizations and the community that have occurred since ancient times have made food according to their location and climate conditions and developed these dishes according to diversity offered by nature. In creating this food, immigration, war, religion and beliefs, climate and geography of the regions, variety of plant and animal species seemed to be the most important factors, wedding, border, the opening of trade routes also are emerging as factors affecting it. Thus formed the culinary cultures of regional and even local “cuisine” is remarkable that occurred then. Gastronomy is the harmony of science and art in food and drinking and its considered to be an effective way of country/region/local introductions. Today the most touristic countries feature their local cusines besides the other opportunities as an important tool. But on the other hand, evaluation of the culinary culture in tourism can not be evaluated adequately. In this study; the local wide and well-established culinary culture is investigated according to regions of Turkey with their historical baseline and create the awareness of this wealth for rural tourism, the development of sustainable gastronomy.