Cooking classes at the Turkish Raindrop Foundation – Spring 2019
Rabia, left, and Nermin are a blur as they work around the kitchen. Here, they lead the Turkish cooking classes featured this spring at the Raindrop Foundation in Albuquerque.
The ingredients are all ready for the dolma cooking workshop at the Raindrop Foundation.
The author jumped in and rolled some of the cabbage rolls. Rabia said it comes easier with practice.
The Turkish cooking classes at Raindrop Foundation are offered every other Saturday all through spring 2019.
Sunday’s event (May 21, 2023) to launch A Coup (the third book in A Turkish Trilogy) was very successful. The brunch was delicious and everyone said they enjoyed the readings and the interview. Author Joan Schweighardt conducted the interview and the photos were taken by her husband, Michael Dooley.
At the moment of her birth, Mustafa Kemal (Ataturk, future founder of the Republic of Turkey), is driving Allied forces from the Gallipoli peninsula. Set against the backdrop of Ataturk’s sweeping changes, As They Are follows the story of a village girl struggling to become a woman as the decimated Ottoman Empire struggles to become a republic.
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Phyllis M Skoy won first runner-up for Legacy Fiction in the Eric Hoffer Awards for What Survives, published in 2016 by IP Books. The award celebrates the memory of the great American philosopher Eric Hoffer by highlighting "salient writing" of "exceptional merit," the organizers state. The award seeks to spotlight the independent spirit of small publishers and honor free-thinking writers.
Read the review on the For the Media page.