-Anna Ansari is a rare kind of home cook who is able to turn the simplest ingredients into pure magic. I can-t wait to read her book.- Meera Sodha
This is the story of the world-s most famous trade routes, retold through recipes.
In this rich and delicious cookbook, Iranian-American cook and writer Anna Ansari takes us on a culinary, historical, and personal odyssey across the Silk Roads.
Weaving together essays, family photography and 90 recipes, Ansari brings life to the flavours of the Silk Roads - from the walnut groves of her father-s Iranian childhood, across Central Asian markets brimming with fragrant melons and thronged with fat-tailed sheep, and into the neighbourhoods of modern-day Chinese cities.
Discover delectable dishes from Baku to Beijing - Azeri-Iranian stews served with crispy-bottomed rice, dill-infused noodles from Western Uzbekistan, Georgian cornbread, Uyghur lamb chops and all kinds of dumplings, from fat, spiralled o
