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To istanbul, to a chef who wants to change that. i'm at the newly renovated galataport — home to some of the city's best restaurants. chef umut is taking traditional turkish classics and reinvigorating them, giving them a bit of a modern upgrade in the form of small tapas. chef umut! yes. lovely to meet you. how are you? welcome. great to meet you. this is for you — it's the pastirma. for me? what's on the menu? this is baklava pastirma. wow! sweet dessert pastry mixed with salty, meaty beef? the beefy baklava crackers will be topped with hummus, mushrooms and more pastirma. we're also pic...

Galataport — home to some of the city's best restaurants. chef umut is taking traditional turkish classics and reinvigorating them, giving them a bit of a modern upgrade in the form of small tapas. chef umut! yes. lovely to meet you. how are you? welcome. great to meet you. this is for you — it's the pastirma. for me? what's on the menu? this is baklava pastirma. wow! sweet dessert pastry mixed with salty, meaty beef? the beefy baklava crackers will be topped with hummus, mushrooms and more pastirma. we're also pickling pastirma and serving it with a fig chutney. i've never had pickled bee...

Cheers. welcome. great to meet you. oh, wow! and the result? absolutely sensational! who knew? by re—imagining old ingredients, umut has created something both fresh and, at the same time, classic. finally this week, we're off to west africa on the trail of one nature lover who's celebrating 30 years of protecting some of the region's most vulnerable wildlife. some call him the father of the turtles and his work may have already rescued one species of terrapin from extinction. we sent emeline nsingi nkosi to meet him close to his home in senegal.

And reinvigorating them, giving them a bit of a modern upgrade in the form of small tapas. chef umut! yes. lovely to meet you. how are you? welcome. great to meet you. this is for you — it's the pastirma. for me? what's on the menu? this is baklava pastirma. wow! sweet dessert pastry mixed with salty, meaty beef? the beefy baklava crackers will be topped with hummus, mushrooms and more pastirma. we're also pickling pastirma and serving it with a fig chutney. i've never had pickled beef before. watch your fingers. wow, look how green it is! your dishes are so colourful. it reminds me of roald...

Guarded, but the extra special ingredient here is the human touch. it's a dying art — ahmet tells me there are very few chaman masters coming through the ranks. such a recurring theme across the board in food, when you have a delicacy such as this, there's only a handful of people left that really are perfecting the art of making it. the rest of it's just becoming commercialised. 0k, down the hatch. flavourful and spicy. yet in recent times, pastirma's fallen out of fashion. so, i'm taking some to istanbul, to a chef who wants to change that. i'm at the newly renovated galataport — home to...