The source, named
Every quantity comes from one published recipe: a cookbook author's own site, a recipe site with a named cook, a university page. The chapter names it and links to it, so you can check.
From the YouTube channel The Anatolian Way
The Anatolian Kitchen & Home Book
Traditional Anatolian recipes and household methods, written out with the exact quantities and the source each one came from. Where the published versions disagree, you see them side by side.
- 66 pages
- 7 chapters so far
- Edition of 14 October 2026
Read the first chapter free
Ezogelin, the bride's lentil soup: its story, the quantities, the method and the published versions side by side, as a PDF.
Selma, who presents the channel, is a fictional host made with AI. This book is published by Funbase.
Here is your chapter.
Download Ezogelin (PDF, 0.4 MB)We will write to you when the book goes on sale, and when a new edition is out. Nothing else.
Not on sale yet. Every recipe will be cooked exactly as written before the first edition is sold; so far, none of the four has been. Take the free chapter now and we will write to you when the book is ready.
What most recipe books leave out
Four things you will find in every chapter
The measure it was written in
Turkish home recipes measure in glasses and spoons. The book keeps the original measure and puts millilitres, grams and American cups beside it.
Where the cooks disagree
When four published cooks make the same soup four ways, you see all four in one table. Nothing is averaged into a recipe nobody wrote.
What a method will not do
The cleaning chapters say which surfaces a method harms and which products must never be mixed, with the source for each warning.
Look inside
Real pages from the edition of 14 October 2026
Tap a page to read it. The drawings are made for the book. There are no photographs of finished dishes, because a photograph of a recipe should show that recipe, cooked.
What is in it so far
7 chapters, and a new one with each episode
To begin
Before you start: who Selma is, and how this book is made
The pantry and the tools
From the kitchen
1Ezogelin, the bride's lentil soup
Serves 6 · Contains wheat (bulgur), milk (butter) · Recipe: Yasemin Gürsürer, Yemek.com
Not yet kitchen-tested
2Bazlama, the thick flatbread from a dry pan
Makes 6 breads · Contains wheat · Recipe: Vidar Bergum, A kitchen in Istanbul
Not yet kitchen-tested
3Menemen, tomatoes, peppers and eggs in one pan
Serves 2 · Contains egg · Recipe: The Menemen registration, TÜRKPATENT 1546
Not yet kitchen-tested
4Çılbır, poached eggs under garlic yoghurt
Serves 6 · Contains egg, milk (yoghurt, butter) · Recipe: Klasik Çılbır, Yemek.com
Not yet kitchen-tested
The cleaning cupboard
5The rules
6Limon tuzu, the lemon salt that is citric acid
7Karbonat and sirke, baking soda and vinegar, one at a time
Planned next
From the channel's list of ideas. A chapter is added only when its episode has been researched and every source opened.
From the kitchen
- The smooth red lentil soup (mercimek çorbası)
- yayla çorbası, the yoghurt soup
- stuffed vine leaves
- gözleme
- bulgur pilaf
- sütlaç, the baked rice pudding
- mantı
- yoghurt made at home
From the pantry
- Tarhana
- tomato and pepper paste
- pickles
- grape molasses
From the cleaning cupboard
- Hard water
- olive-oil and laurel soap
- copper, tin and brass
- wool and the linen cupboard
From the garden
- Drying peppers, aubergines and herbs
- saving seed
Once the book is on sale, buying it once brings every later edition with it: when a chapter is added or corrected, buyers get the new file.
How this book is made
Plainly, so you can decide whether to trust it
Selma is a character, not a person
The woman who presents The Anatolian Way is fictional. Her face, her voice and her kitchen are made with AI tools. Nothing in the book rests on her word, and she is not its author.
Researched from sources that were opened and read
The research, the writing and the layout were done with AI tools under the direction of Funbase, who publishes the book and answers for it. Every source is named in its chapter, with a link.
Cooked before it is sold
A recipe goes into an edition for sale only after the publisher has cooked it exactly as written. Each recipe chapter says whether it has been, and on what date.
Corrected when it is wrong
If a source changes or a method turns out to be wrong, the book is corrected, the edition date changes, and buyers get the new file.
No health claims
The book describes taste, texture, use and tradition. It never says that a food or a method does something for your body.
No invented praise
There are no reviews or testimonials on this page, and none will ever be made up. No countdowns either: the price is the price.
Start with the first chapter
Ezogelin, the bride's lentil soup, complete, as a PDF. We will also write to you when the whole book goes on sale, and when a new edition is out.
Selma, who presents the channel, is a fictional host made with AI. This book is published by Funbase.
Here is your chapter.
Download Ezogelin (PDF, 0.4 MB)We will write to you when the book goes on sale, and when a new edition is out. Nothing else.
Questions
Before you sign up
Who is Selma?
Selma presents the recipes on the YouTube channel The Anatolian Way. She is a fictional character made with AI: her face, her voice and her kitchen are generated. She has no biography, and the book never uses her as proof of anything. The sources do that.
Who is behind the book?
Funbase, who publishes it and answers for every page. The research, writing and layout were done with AI tools under the publisher's direction, from sources that were opened and read.
What exactly do I get?
One PDF of 66 pages: 7 chapters so far, with a clickable contents page and a bookmark for every chapter and section. Each recipe gives the quantities in the original Turkish measure and converted, the method in the order the work happens, the published versions side by side, how to keep it, and a one-page short version to cook from.
Can I read it on a tablet, or print it?
Yes. The type was chosen for reading on a screen, and the pages are A4, which also prints on US Letter paper when you choose "fit to page".
Have the recipes been tested?
Not all of them yet, and the book says so on each recipe. The quantities are those of the published recipe the chapter names; the conversions are ours. Every recipe will be cooked exactly as written before the first edition is sold; so far, none of the four has been.
What about allergens?
The top of every recipe lists what it contains as written, such as wheat, milk or egg. Check each ingredient you buy as well.
How do new editions reach me?
Once the book is on sale, everyone who buys it gets each new edition as a file, at no charge.
Is it in German, French or Spanish?
Not yet. The book is in English. Other languages may follow once the English edition is tested.
Something else?
Write to hello@funbase.ai. Corrections are especially welcome.