Some popular mastic delicacies of the town follow as mastic Turkish coffee or Turkish coffee served with mastic water, mastic pudding, mastic ice cream, mastic jam, mastic biscuit balls, as well as the savoury meze of mastic artichoke. A local mastic desserts shop Imren has been chosen as the representative of mastic culture in town. Imren has multiplied to four shops due to high demand as the locals prefer to eat at home and have ice cream after dinner. The shop also offers a complimentary book about the history and production of mastic. Alaçatı is nominated by numerous windsurfing magazines as the best spot for beginners to learn windsurfing due to having a shallow bay that makes beginners to feel safe. Alaçatı bay which is known as one of the world's leading windsurfing bays with continuous and steady wind throughout the year. Alaçatı windsurf schools meet the international standards by offering material for canoeing, kitesurfing, sup and windsurfing. Alaçatı recently has made a name for hosting international windsurfing championships and tournaments and world's most known windsurfing tournament PWA. PWA racers nicknamed Alaçatı as 'the Slalom Capital of the world'. In 2004, a documentary on the town was aired on a Japanese television program hosted by Nana Eikura. Since then, the town has attracted numerous Asian tourists. In 2010, Alaçatı was ranked 8th by the New York Times on top places to visit in 2010. Several cities have been named after Alatsata, including Nea Alatsata, Crete; Nea Erythraia, Athens, Greece. A great number of Alatsatean refugees were settled in Greece after they were forcibly removed from their homeland, in Attica, Euboea, Crete, Chios, Lesvos, Samos, Thessaloniki and in Agrinion. Regions with settlements, bearing the name "New Alatsata" ("Νέα Αλάτσατα" in Greek) exist in the Municipality of Vyron, in Athens, in Chalkis and in Heraklion of Crete. Besides Greece, Alatsateans migrated to almost all continents but mostly to the United States of America, where in Somerville, in Boston the Small Alatsata was founded.    http://alatsata.net/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=22%3A2009-03-10-14-37-10&catid=15%3A2009-03-10-12-37-09&Itemid=44&lang=en