These original classes proved so popular that in 2008 she closed the hotel and moved into a new purpose-designed cooking school in Sultanahmet, where she now offers hands-on half-day classes focussing on traditional Anatolian dishes.

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Stone worked for months trying to reconcile the different requirements each program had for families as well as the school, before throwing his hands up and deciding instead to offer two half-day pre-K classes.

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