Sultans in the Ottoman Empire loved to eat. In the 15th century, Topkapi Palace boasted a kitchen staff of 100 people, a number that grew to 500 during the 16th-century reign of Suleiman the ...

“Venice and the Ottoman Empire,” at the North Carolina Museum ... I” (by a painter from the school of Paolo Veronese), the sultan’s towering white turban, suggesting cotton candy, lifts ...