So the pages incorporate not only recipes — both traditional and updated — but side trips to Tbilisi and other places, Alexandre Dumas quotes, discussions of post-Soviet architecture, as well as the ...

Taste of Persia by Naomi Duguid, Summers Under The Tamarind Tree by Sumaya Usmani, Samarkand by Caroline Eden and Eleanor Ford and Jerusalem: A Cookbook by Yotam Ottolenghi and Sami Tamimi.(Vernon ...

Samarkand sits in Uzbekistan along the ancient Silk Road, where travelers and merchants once hawked their wares from China to the Mediterranean Sea. Food and travel writer Caroline Eden uses the ...

When travel writer Caroline Eden visited the city of Samarkand in Uzbekistan, she was immediately taken not only by a skyline framed with domed mosques and Soviet-era monolithic buildings, but by ...

Essayist Eden and food writer Ford document the culinary contributions from Tajiks, Russians, Turks, Jews, Koreans, Caucasians, and Uzbecks who have settled in Samarkand, creating one of the world's ...