Cheese is so popular in Turkey that locals eat it as a main course at breakfast. Of course, the meat and cheese dishes, as well as cheese appetizers, only add to its popularity. Turkey is ...

Traditionalists would insist that the dish contains just cheese ... For a special vegetarian main course, use a vegetarian creamy blue cheese (such as Dolcelatte or Saint Agur).

Subscribe to Salon Food's newsletter, The Bite. In turn, of course, I then made this fennel-and-cheese dish ad nauseam in the ensuing years. As I phrased it back when I first wrote about the dish ...