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World Turkish Cuisine Institutional Heritage Inventory

WTCA’s internal documentation and appraisal record of examined culinary publications.

Status of this inventoryThe World Turkish Cuisine Institutional Heritage Inventory is WTCA’s documented research and appraisal record for works relevant to Turkish culinary heritage. Each entry reflects the Academy’s published institutional assessment and supporting source record. Any separate governmental, intergovernmental or legal recognition associated with an entry is identified independently when supported by the relevant source.

The inventory is kept under the name World Turkish Cuisine Institutional Heritage Inventory. Earlier institutional wording referred to it as the World Turkish Cuisine Heritage List; the record is the same and the change is one of accuracy, not of scope.

An entry records that the Academy has examined a published work and set down its appraisal. Where an appraisal reference has been verified for public citation it is given with the entry. Where it has not, that is stated and no reference number is supplied.

Institutional heritage inventory

World Turkish Cuisine Institutional Heritage Inventory

Status of the inventoryThe World Turkish Cuisine Institutional Heritage Inventory is WTCA’s documented research and appraisal record for works relevant to Turkish culinary heritage. Each entry reflects the Academy’s published institutional assessment and supporting source record. Any separate governmental, intergovernmental or legal recognition associated with an entry is identified independently when supported by the relevant source.

The list is an institutional heritage inventory rather than a reading list. A work is entered only after it has been examined, and the entry is recorded together with the appraisal that supports it. Where the appraisal reference has been verified it is given with the entry; where verification is still in progress, that is stated.

This is the appropriate scholarly form. Publishing a title alone states a conclusion without its grounds; publishing the title with its assessment reference allows a reader to ask for the reasoning and, if it is mistaken, to challenge it. Extended excerpts from the works themselves are not reproduced, since the register documents the assessment and not the text, and the copyright in those works remains with their rightsholders.

Entry
Dumlu, Niyazi. Lokmacı Baba. Cenova Yayınları, 2018. 360 pp. ISBN 978-605-68131-0-8. WTCA appraisal: File No. 0015; Report No. 1071-1453-26-30-2022-D15; 1 February 2022. The work was characterised in the WTCA appraisal as a “work of art” and was entered in the institution's then World Turkish Cuisine Heritage List.
Entry
Erol, Hülya Duranoğlu. Hazır Alma Kendin Yap! Geleneksel Usullerle Ev Yapımı Lezzetler. İstanbul: Hayykitap, 2014. ISBN 978-605-5181-70-3. WTCA appraisal: File No. 0016; Report No. 1071-1453-26-30-2022-D16; 7 May 2022. The work was characterised in the WTCA appraisal as a “cultural work of art” and was entered in the institution's then World Turkish Cuisine Heritage List.
Entry
Bardakçı, Murat. Atatürk'ün Mutfağı. İstanbul: Turkuvaz Kitap, 2022. 328 pp. ISBN 978-625-7548-35-9. WTCA appraisal: File No. 0018; Report No. 1071-1453-26-30-2022-D18; 1 July 2022. The work was characterised in the WTCA appraisal as a “historical work of art” and was entered in the institution's then World Turkish Cuisine Heritage List.
Inventory record
Each entry and its appraisal are held in the institutional archive. Where an appraisal report number has not yet been verified for public citation, that is stated against the entry rather than supplied.
Publication policyResearch is not sold for financial gain. Institutional publications are generally supported by the Academy's own resources and issued without commercial sponsorship. Copyright in each work rests with its respective rightsholder as applicable.

Archive

Earlier Institutional Records

Some records and announcements issued under the inventory’s earlier institutional name remain accessible in the TMDH archive under “World Turkish Cuisine Heritage List.” The current WTCA site continues the same documented institutional record series under the name “World Turkish Cuisine Institutional Heritage Inventory.”

View the earlier Heritage List archive on TMDH →

Rights in the material described

Entries are bibliographic descriptions. Copyright and related rights in the works described remain with their respective rightsholders. Inclusion in the inventory transfers no right to WTCA, grants no licence, and is not a permission to reproduce. Attribution is not permission.

Questions about an entry, a correction, or a request for removal may be addressed to info@tmdh.net.