This summer, we’ve been asking NPR’s international correspondents: What’s for breakfast?
In Ukraine, it’s curd-cheese pancakes. Nigerians break fast with fried dough. Lebanon loves its flatbread so much the United Nations has certified it as part of intangible cultural heritage.
In Turkey, breakfast is less a quick morning meal and more an elaborate, social ritual of sharing and conversation.
NPR’s Hadeel Al-Shalchi reports from a Turkish city known for the morning meal.
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