If you're a foodie visiting Istanbul, Selin Rozanes from Turkish Flavours can tailor tours highlighting the city's best culinary addresses,organizing food tours visiting markets on two continents - Europe and Asia with lunch, street food tours in Beyoglu area and sailing tours to the Prince's Island and more.In the morning or late afternoon you can join Selin at her authentic 1930's home in Nisantasý,experience a Turkish cooking class and taste what you have cooked! Turkish Flavours also coordinates cultural culinary tours throughout Turkey delivering unforgettable experiences and an insight into the Turkish way of life
Selin Rozanes (View My Profile)Founder of Turkish Flavours, a Culinary Experiences and Travel Specialist, a native of Istanbul. After Robert College High School she studied Tourism and Hotel Management at the Bosphorus University.
Her love of food and travel has developed into the “Turkish Flavours” project in 2006. After a long career in the travel industry, she began designing and leading culinary itineraries around Istanbul and Turkey including cooking programs on Turkish Cuisine, local food market ,street food tours and culinary vacations. At her hands-on Turkish cooking classes in her authentic 1930's Turkish home , participants experience Turkish culture and hospitality while learning and understanding Turkish culinary traditions. Cooking classes with Turkish - Sephardic menus from Selin's family recipes are also experienced at Selin’s kitchen.
A self-taught home chef and gastronomically inquisitive person, Selin has organized many hands on Turkish Cooking classes for visitors from 30 different countries. She is a member of Slow Food, the International Culinary Tourism Association and Mutfak Dostlari Dernegi (Turkish Kitchen Friends Ass). She speaks English, Turkish, French and some Spanish,Greek and German.
Her vast knowledge about Istanbul and Turkey and what it offers to travelers is always an asset to Turkish Flavours guests. She can help designing the perfect cultural sightseeing and the best culinary experiences for travelers and corporate and incentive groups touring in Turkey.
Selin has lots of experience as Travel Consultant and has organized many luxurious, individualized holidays to fit specific needs . She has coordinated many tours and events for Abercrombie and Kent ,API, Virtuoso,YPO,CEO and WPO travellers in Turkey. She still acts as an Individual Travel Consultant and can give advice, help custom design itineraries, pick best guides, coordinate reservations at luxurious accommodations, and enhance your travel to Turkey.