Tencere
Cookpot.
Category: Visual Dictionary
Minder
Seat cushion.
Tabak
Plate or platter. Food was served on a tabak, but each diner didn’t get their own. Instead, everyone ate from a central dish. The closest a 16th-century Turk might have to a personal plate was a piece of flatbread.
Sahan
A dish used to both cook and serve food. It could be lidded or lidless. The sahan was one of the basic pieces that every household would have.
Tas
A shallow cup or small bowl used for drinking.
Kaftan
The full-length robe worn by both men and women as a formal outer layer. Because the long skirts implied that the wearer didn’t do physical labor, men who wore kaftans were usually high-ranking, and/or had jobs with a certain gentlemanly aura. There are exceptions–some janissaries wore kaftans–but even those…