Culinary Event
FLAVORS OF ANATOLIA
with CHEF ANA SORTUN
Executive Chef/Owner, Oleana; Co-owner Sofra Bakery & Café and Sarma
Celebrating 20 Years!
Experience an evening of exquisite Turkish cuisine accompanied by the distinctive wines of Kavaklidere Winery of Türkiye.
James Beard award-winning chef, Ana Sortun, owner of Oleana restaurant and co-owner of Sofra Bakery & Café and Sarma restaurant, will share flavorful and enticing Turkish dishes that provide a culinary backdrop to the region. Ana has authored/co-authored two cookbooks, Spice: Flavors of the Eastern Mediterranean and Soframiz: Vibrant Middle Eastern Recipes from Sofra Bakery.
Joining Chef Sortun, pastry chef of Oleana, Nik Mastalerz, will be providing the dessert for the evening. Nik was recently named to the 2024 Rising Star Chefs.
One of BTF's signature events, Flavors of Anatolia is celebrating its 20th year, which had its inaugural event with chef Ana Sortun in 2006.
CHEF ANA SORTUN
Executive Chef/Owner, Oleana; Co-owner, Sofra Bakery & Café ; Sarma
Ana Sortun is a native of Seattle, Washington and graduated from La Varenne Ecole de Cuisine de Paris in 1989. She opened her first restaurant, Oleana, in 2001 and was named Best Chef in the Northeast by the James Beard Foundation in 2005. That same year she gave birth to her daughter Siena and wrote her first cookbook, Spice: Flavors of the Eastern Mediterranean. In 2010, she opened Sofra Bakery and Café with business partner and Pastry Chef, Maura Kilpatrick and several years later they co-authored Soframiz: Vibrant Middle Eastern Recipes from Sofra Bakery. In 2013, Sortun partnered with Chef Cassie Piuma to open Sarma in Somerville, modeled after a Turkish meyhane or meze restaurant. Ana is a James Beard Semi-Finalist for Outstanding Chef in 2015, 2016, 2017, 2019 and 2020. She is known for bringing Middle Eastern flavors into the mainstream through her passion of Turkish cooking, spices and her husband’s (Chris Kurth of Siena Farms) fresh, organic vegetables.
Co-presented with Boston University Food and Wine Program
Special thanks to Kavaklıdere Winery
THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 13, 2025 | 6:00 pm
Boston University Food & Wine Program
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