Samarkand Recipes & Stories from Central Asia & The Caucasus

by Ford, Eleanor; Eden, Caroline

• ISBN13: 9781909487420
• ISBN10: 1909487422
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2016-06-07
• Publisher: Kyle Books

Summary

Over hundreds of years, various ethnic groups have passed through Samarkand, sharing and influencing each other's cuisine and leaving their culinary stamp. This book is a love letter to Central Asia and the Caucasus, containing personal travel essays and recipes little known in the West that have been expertly adapted for the home cook.

An array of delicious dishes introduce the region and its different ethnic groups-Uzbek, Tajik, Russian, Turkish, Korean, Caucasian, and Jewish-along with a detailed introduction to the Silk Road and a useful store cupboard of essential ingredients.

Chapters are divided into A Shared Table, Soups, Roast Meats & Kebabs, Warming Food for Long Winters, Plovs & Pilafs, Accompaniments, Breads & Doughs, Drinks, and Desserts & Sweetmeats. One hundred recipes are showcased, including Apricot & Red Lentil Soup, Chapli Kebabs, Rosh Hashanah Plov with Barberries, Pomegranate, & Quince, Kefir Pancakes with Blackberry Syrup, and the all-important regional breads. And with evocative travel features such as Lunch on the Road to Samarkand, A Banquet on the Caspian Sea, and Shopping under Kyrgyzstan's Sacred Mountain, you will be charmed and enticed by this relatively untouched region and its cuisine.

Author Biography

Caroline Eden specializes in Central Asia and the Caucasus. She is a regular contributor to the travel, food and culture pages of The Guardian, Financial Times, Independent, and AsianArt newspaper as well as a weekly travel page for London's Metro. She has reported on key events in Kazakhstan and Azerbaijan for BBC Radio 4's From Our Own Correspondent.
Eleanor Ford is a food journalist who focuses on making world cuisines accessible to the home cook. She has been a recipe developer and editor for the Good Food Channel and BBC Good Food Magazine. She has judged The Guild of FoodWriters' Awards, was local editor for Zagat's Hong Kong guide and has been a Time Out restaurant reviewer.

Table of Contents

• A Shared Table
• Soups
• Roast Meats & Kebabs
• Warming Foods for Long Winters
• Pilafs & Plovs
• Accompaniments
• Breads & Doughs
• Drinks
• Desserts & Sweetmeats
• Index