Made from orchid tubers, the drink is a winter staple in Turkey, but finding it in the United States can prove difficult. By Amelia Nierenberg In Turkey, winter is the season of salep. In the streets, ...

As the winter is around the corner, the right time for two Turkish traditional drinks, salep and boza, is nearing. The first one warms people up while the latter cools them down, offering a different ...

It wouldn't be a good idea to pull your Phalaenopsis or Oncidium orchids from their pots in the living room in an attempt to make salep (also spelled sahlab and sa'alab). For one thing, committing ...

Ice cream made from salep - a flour produced from the tubers of dried, wild orchids growing in the mountains of south-eastern Turkey - is a great delicacy in the country. It is so popular that part of ...

It’s a 16-degree December day, and fierce gusts make it feel even colder. Instead of shivering in the wind, Ibrahim Sergi and I are perched at a sunny table inside Sergi Coffee & Roast, his West ...

Leslie B. asks: Is there anywhere in New York where I can drink salep? Dear Leslie: I must confess that before I received your question, I knew very little about salep, except that it was used to ...