CORNUCOPIA Issue 58, 2018

Issue 58 highlights:
Brian McKee’s last photographic essay, on the ?shak Pasha Palace on Turkey’s eastern border. Robert Ousterhout on Sicily’s dazzling Byzantine mosaics. King Ashurbanipal at the British Museum and everyday life on the edge of the Assyrian Empire. A marriage of beauty and intellect in the murals of Navine G Khan-Dossos.
Paolo Girardelli explores Istanbul’s Imperial School of Medicine. Norman Stone chronicles the colourful but shadowy life of Ármin Vámbéry, spy, polyglot and Orientalist. The evergreen Pandeli rises again. Plus the vibrancy of beetroot and chard…

Published twice a year, Cornucopia is the magazine for connoisseurs of Turkey. This independent publication – gorgeous enough for the coffee table, serious enough to be found in academic libraries – is an ever-growing compendium of all things Turkish: history, culture, art, food, travel.

The arbiter of taste Tyler Brûlé has called Cornucopia in the FT ‘a cross between The World of Interiors and National Geographic, with a gentle Turkic twist’. For The New York Review of Magazines, ‘It’s a truism that the measure of a travel magazine’s success is whether it makes you yearn to visit the destinations it depicts. Cornucopia goes one better. It is a vacation in itself.’ For the blog Quintessence, ‘Cornucopia is indeed an apt name for this publication of plenty, overflowing with Turkish beauty, inspiration and edification.’