Elif Cemre Özaydın graduated from Gaziantep University's Department of Gastronomy and Culinary Arts in 2016. In the same year, she began her master's degree in Gastronomy at Okan University's Institute of Social Sciences and graduated in 2019. In 2020, she began her PhD in Gastronomy at Istanbul Gelişim University's Institute of Graduate Education. She earned her PhD in 2024 and is currently serving as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Gastronomy and Culinary Arts (English) at Istanbul Gelişim University. Elif Cemre Özaydın has published works on topics including the history of gastronomy, Ottoman cuisine, culinary culture and traditions, and gastronomic tourism.
Şükran Dönmez graduated from the Department of Turkish Language and Literature, Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Gaziantep University in 2018. In 2022, she completed the Non-Thesis Master’s Program in Teaching Turkish as a Foreign Language at the Khoja Akhmet Yassawi International Kazakh-Turkish University, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences. In the same year, she enrolled in the Master’s Program in Turkish Language and Literature (with thesis) at the Graduate School of Istanbul Aydın University, where she is currently continuing her studies.
Since 2022, she has been working at the Library and Documentation Department of Istanbul Gelisim University as the Responsible Officer for Periodicals and the Assistant Responsible Officer for Technical Services. Previously, she worked in various private institutions as a Turkish Language and Literature teacher and a teacher of Turkish as a foreign language, and also served as an editor in publishing houses.
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