Okay Inak is running his own restaurant in downtown L.A. as the sole employee. “He worked at the best restaurants in the world, and chefs cannot make money in the restaurants,” his wife and co-owner ...

Kibbeh, the improbably delicate union of bulgur and spiced ground meat, is a shape-shifter of a dish. Its name adapts to languages and dialects throughout southwestern Asian countries; in Turkey, it ...