(Warning this is very stream of conscience!) Well for a week on the boat, the crew fed us. We ate what I imagine to be the typical Turk home bitch seeking fucking cookin'. Breakfast: EVERY DAY sliced cucumbers, sliced tomato and chuncks cheeses feta and a white cheese of some sort bread. Sometimes and jam, sometimes a VERY hard boiled egg. ALWAYS tea. Coffee means Nescafe bleh. No too actually drinking turkish coffee. Yogurt was at most meals. A sauce for meats or pasta, mixed with cucumber and mint for a sort of tsatsiki, mezes or salad type dishes. There is a popular salty yogurt drink meh. Lots of roasted meats, stuffed peppers, grilled fish, kabaps (kabobs obviously) everywhere. Usually any of these had yogurt on them or with them. Chicken, meatballs, lots of lamb dishes. Stuffed grape leaves. Fresh veggies at every meal and usually fresh fruit for dinner. It was watermelon wile we were there. While there, it was Ramadan, so in front of the Blue Mosque after the went down, they were allowed to break fast, so there was a huge with all kinds of sweets and snacks, a soft taffy (they wrap flavors you choose around a stick), turkish taffy, a fried dough type thingy smothered in. And doners everywhere yum turkish fast food. The turkish version of the gyro. And Manti yum a sort of lamb tortellini. Yogurt sauce of course. Turkish tea is sold in small glasses with a saucer and spoon. local folks had us in for tea. They are very friendly folk. And Raki! Mmmmm! Bread is everywhere. They have good, tasty bread. It is VERY inexpensive like 20 cents a loaf of fresh bread similar to french bread. It is very cheap because the government decided noone should go hungry so they subsidize BREAD. It can be no more than 20 cents (approx). Novel idea!