Editor John Scott Publisher Berrin Torolsan | Frequency 3/year Year founded 1992 | |
Cornucopia is a magazine about Turkish culture, art and history, published jointly in the United Kingdom and Turkey.
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Cornucopia was founded by John Scott and Berrin Torolsan in 1992. It is an English language magazine that concerns Turkish culture. The magazine has a broad scope that covers Turkey’s heritage (prehistoric, Byzantine, Ottoman and Republican and that of the Turkic peoples.
Thus there have been articles on Nemrut Dağı, Sagalassos, Mimar Sinan, Mount Athos, Ottoman Damascus, the Turkic-speaking Uighurs of western China, Göbekli Tepe, Nevalı Çori, Knidos, Termessos, Aphrodisias, Kariye Camii, Theodosian Walls, Ayasofya, Leighton House in London. Cornucopia has also profiled Freya Stark, Lesley Blanch, Steven Runciman, Godfrey Goodwin, Rifat Ozbek, Hussein Chalayan, Rebiya Kadeer, Pierre Loti, John Frederick Lewis, Sultan Mahmud II, Stratford Canning, Herbert Chermside, Grand Vizier Ali Pasha, Ismail Kemal Bey, and the Young Turks.
The magazine also documents recent auctions and exhibitions of Turkish Art and Islamic art around the world. It has a large books section with reviews by prominent contributors.
Cornucopia also carries regular features on food, restaurants and life in Turkey by Berrin Torolsan, Andrew Finkel and Azize Ethem respectively.
Heritage
Notably, Cornucopia has brought publicity to some of Turkey's threatened heritage.
In both cases this is the only photographic record in print.
Critical reaction
Contributors
Notable contributors have included:
Issues
- Insider's Turkey, 1992
- The Essential Rose, 1992
- The Pink House: Inside the Mocan Yalı, 1992/93
- The Absolute Guide to Istanbul, 1993
- Palaces of Diplomacy I, 1993/94
- Palaces of Diplomacy II, 1994
- The Great Walls of Istanbul, 1994
- A Turkish Summer, 1995
- Ideal Worlds, 1995/6
- Ingres and Lady Mary, 1996
- Anatolia Rediscovered, 1996
- The Black Sea, 1997
- The Turkish Garden, 1997
- ''Objects of Desire: Books on the Ottomans, 1997/98
- Mountain Secrets, 1998
- Beguiling Büyükada, 1998
- The Republic, 1999
- The Ottoman Riviera, 1999
- Forgotten Riches: Poland's Ottoman treasures, 1999
- The Lake that Time Forgot, 2000
- Ottoman Damascus, 2000
- The Sultan's Chalet, 2000/01
- Haute Ottoman, 2001
- The Wild East: Travels in Southeast Anatolia, 2001
- The Abstract Heart: The Visionary Photographs of Zafer Baran, 2002
- The Birth of Art: The Discovery of Göbekli Tepe and Nevali Çori, 2002
- Sublime Simplicity: The Timeless Pots of Alev Ebüzziya Siesbye, 2002
- Peoples of the Black Sea, 2003
- Ottoman Gardens, 2003
- Early Journeys, 2003/04
- China's Wild West, 2004
- The Connoisseur's Guide to Istanbul, 2004
- Great Exhibitions, 2005
- Ottoman Kaftans, 2005
- Istanbul Elegy, 2006
- Beauty on the Bosphorus, 2006
- A Riot of Textiles, 2007
- The Big Bursa Issue, 2007
- Diplomatic Secrets, 2008
- Highlights of the First 40 Issues, 2008
- Bathing Beauty:The Imperial Hammams of Istanbul, 2009
- Adventures in Anatolia, 2009
- Shrines & Sanctuaries, 2010
- Classics With a Twist, 2010
- Painting the Orient, 2011
Most back issues are still available, or can be found in second had book stores. Some have become collector's items, fetching large sums of money.