The Sephardic Cuisine as nurtured by the Jewish Community in Izmir is an important component of the overall culinary culture of Western Anatolia. This culinary heritage shares a similar fate along with other traditional cuisines and that is a struggle for survival in the face of ever-changing eating habits such as popularized fast food diets and some gradual socio-economic and cultural transformations which have contributed to the deterioration of eating habits. Six homemakers from the Jewish Community, wh