yummiSTANBUL

Dear yummiSTANBULlers,
I have waited until we reached the first 100 members, which happened quicker that I thought, to send you this first message. I want to say thank you to all our members and for telling your friends about the group. I am sure there are many of you who would like to know more about yummiSTANBUL and what we are going to do.

As I wrote in the description of the group, the aim of yummiSTANBUL is to bring people together who may or may not know each other but who like to cook and enjoy trying new food. I decided to start this group after my friend, Sezen Ozgur, told me about an article she read in a magazine. Underground dinner & Ghetto Gourmet is a trend, which started in America and has spread to Europe.

As I said, people who may or may not know each other give dinner parties and announce their menus through the group’s page here on Facebook. People who would like to join a dinner come to the party with drinks and a contribution to offset the cost of the dinner.

Reading the article started me thinking about whether there were these kind of parties in Istanbul and Turkey. I was surprised that this trend hadn’t reached Istanbul before so I decided to start the network yummiSTANBUL.

So where now?

This group belongs to the people who enjoy food and who would like to expand their social network. If you would like to organize a dinner party, just announce the date, the menu and an email address through the Facebook page so that interested members can contact you. Please don’t post your phone numbers and your home address, as this is an open group. You can inform those people who reply to you and who you wish to invite sending them details through email. Don’t forget, these dinners shouldn’t be open to only those people you already know; they are also an opportunity to meet new people.

As the founder of this group, I will be organize and announce our first dinner party and the menu. I hope this will be the first of many dinner parties members of this group will host.

If you have any questions please post in on the message board.

I would like to say thanks once more to everybody for supporting this idea. Let’s continue to expend the network.

Best regards,
Neylan Bowden