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In the hours around sunset, I always find myself at the quay by Tophane, in front of a coffeehouse, sitting in the open air – it was an eastern tradition to watch people coming and going, to watch the night begin to fall... The divans lined up in the open air slowly fill with people of all races dressed in all the varied costumes of the East, without discrimination. The waiters seem rushed off their feet, rushing hither and thither as they serve little cups of coffee, rakı, sugar and leather cups containing the coals for the hookahs' fire; the most leisurely hours of the evening are about to begin, the hookahs take flame and the air is filled with the lovely smell of smoke rising from golden yellow cigarettes."
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Abdülhak Şinasi Hisar, Paris'te Yahya Kemal (Yahya Kemal in Paris)
Demir Özlü, Gezintiler II (Excursions II)
Elias Petropoulos, Turkish Coffee in Greece
Enis Batur, Kediler Krallara Bakabilir (Cats Can Look At Kings)
Gustave Flaubert, Dictionnaire des Idées Reçues (Dictionary of Received Ideas)
Hüseyin Rahmi Gürpınar, Hayattan Sayfalar (Pages From Life)
Léon-Paul Fargue, Poisons
Oktay Rifat, Niko'nun Kahvesi (Niko's Coffee)
Pierre Loti, İstanbul
Sait Faik Abasıyanık, Kıraathaneler (Coffeehouses)
Salâh Birsel, Kahveler Kitabı (The Book of Coffeehouses)
Taha Toros, Kahvenin Öyküsü (The Story of Coffee)
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