Authentic Afghan Food & Cookery: Noshe Djan Cookbook - Traditional Afghan Recipes for Home Cooking & Cultural Exploration
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Situated at the crossroads of four major regions-the Middle East, Central Asia, the Indian subcontinent and the Far East-Afghanistan has survived centuries of invasions, whether military, cultural or culinary. Its hearty cuisine includes a tempting variety of offerings: lamb, pasta, chickpeas, rice pilafs, flat breads, kebabs, spinach, okra, lentils, yogurt, pastries and delicious teas, all flavored with delicate spices, are staple ingredients. This cookbook includes over 100 recipes, all adapted for the North American kitchen, for favorites like "Mantu" (Pasta filled with Meat and Onion), "Shinwari Kebab" (Lamb Chops Kebab), and "Qabili Pilau" (Yellow Rice with Carrots and Raisins). The author's informative introduction describes traditional Afghan holidays, festivals and celebrations. Also included is a section entitled "The Afghan Kitchen," which provides essentials about cooking utensils, spices, ingredients and methods. Complete with b/w maps and illustrations.
Customer Reviews
The book club that I belong to tries, for each book, to tie the food we share at our meeting with the book that we're discussing. This month we read The Kite Runner (Khaled Hosseini, Riverhead Books, 2003 - in my opinion, a terrific book) and I discovered, despite my large collection of cookbooks, that I didn't have any good sources of information about Afghan food. I made do with what I could find on the internet, but at the same time checked out Afghan cookery at Amazon. I chose Afghan Food and Cookery: Noshe Djan, and when it arrived was immediately struck not only by the delightful recipes and excellent writing of Helen Saberi, but by the insights she provides into Afghan culture. Her writing dovetailed beautifully with Hosseini's descriptions of the food eaten by his characters in Afghanistan as well as the circumstances in which it was cooked and presented. I found myself sitting and reading the cookbook as if it were a companion to the novel.For anyone who would like to see behind the scenes presented in Kite Runner, I would recommend Saberi's book!
