Unique exploration of the people and food of Central Asia, follow-up to the award-winning Black Sea
"In her journey across Central Asia, Caroline uses food as her agent to give readers a very personal insight into this under-reported region, a land that bridges Europe and East Asia; links Russia and China; neighbours Iran and Afghanistan. While exploring mosques set in desert caves, wedding halls that glitter and suffocate, disorientating walnut forests, hotels for the heroes of the Soviet space programme and the cloying dining rooms of withered and cracked sanitoriums we meet the stars of this book. These are the cooks, poets, entrepreneurs, historians, gardeners and fishermaen of Kazakhstan, Kyrgystan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan."--Back of book.
