Melceü't-Tabbâhîn

Melceü't-Tabbâhîn (Ottoman Turkish: ملجأ الطباخين, The Sanctuary of Cooks or The Refuge of Cooks), the first Ottoman Turkish cookbook, was written in 1844 by Hoca Mehmed Kâmil, a lecturer at the Imperial School of Medicine in Galatasaray, Istanbul. It was the first-ever printed Turkish-language cookbook.

It was translated into English by Turab Efendi in the 19th century as "A Manual of Turkish Cookery", and translated into Arabic in 1887 by Mohammad Sidqi, the Arabic translation was printed until 1915 in several editions.

The book was used as a reference text for a chapter on foods in the proceedings of the 1889 International Congress of Orientalists.

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