İlk Kez Aşure Yapacaklar İçin Net! (A Clear Recipe for First-Time Aşure Makers) is a zine book shaped around the annual tradition of making aşure within my family. In the apartment building where my family lives, aşure is cooked every year during the month of aşure, and each household prepares it in its own way.
Aşure is already a dessert of accumulation: a mixture of what is available at home, brought together in a single pot. In this project, I photographed my aunt’s aşure-making process, approaching this family ritual through both a contemporary photographic language and an aesthetic that preserves and multiplies the tradition itself.
Although the book presents itself as a precise and detailed recipe guide, it does not actually contain a written recipe or direct instructions on how to make aşure. Instead, through its photographic sequence, the viewer follows the making of aşure from beginning to end.
Moving between a cookbook, a family archive, and a playful photobook, the zine transforms a domestic ritual into a visual recipe — one that is measured not by ingredients, but by gestures, repetition, memory, and shared tradition.