Crossroads of Cuisine

Paul D. Buell, Ph.D., Part-time Faculty, University of North Georgia. Historian of Chinese medicine and Central Eurasia with special reference to the era of Mongolian Empire, the history of food and foodways, and the Age of Exploration. Sinologist, Mongolist, Turkologist. E. N. Anderson, Ph.D., Professor Emeritus of Anthropology, University of California, Riverside. Human ecologist with interest in food production and consumption and foodways. Field research in Hong Kong, Malaysia, Mexico, British Columbia, and short periods in Mongolia, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Afghanistan. Montserrat de Pablo Moya, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Faculty of Fine Arts, Cuenca, University of Castilla-La Mancha. Visiting Scholar, Max Planck Institute, Berlin. Professional Photographer and Artist, interest in the history of photography and documentary photography. Field work in Kazakhstan and Mongolia. Moldir Oskenbay, Ph.D., Historian of traditional Kazakh culture and Central Eurasia with special reference to the ethnic history of Turkic tribes, era of Mongolian Empire and its aftermath. Strong secondary interests in comparative history of food and foodways.

• ContentsAcknowledgementsList of Illustrations and TableIntroduction1 The Eurasian Heartland: Overview of a Link between Worlds1 Physical Geography 2 Vegetation3 Animal Life4 Nations of Today5 Agriculture and Environment6 Integrating Agriculture and Livestock7 Nomads8 The Crossroads9 Overall View of Foods10 Building Foodways2 Prehistory and History: The Long Record of Foodways1 Prehistory: From Hunting to Agriculture2 Prehistory: Domestication3 Domesticated Plants4 Domestic Animals5 Languages6 The Origins of Civilization and High Culture in the Eurasian Heartland 7 Religion3 Histories1 Ancient and Medieval History (Before the Mongols)2 Chinese Food Meets Western Food on the Silk Road3 China after Tang4 Witnesses: Travel Accounts from Late Antiquity and Early Medieval Times5 Medicine and Food in Medieval Central Asia6 History during the Mongol Empire7 The Eurasian Heartland and Its Silk Roads in Mongol Times8 Food and Medicine in Mongol Times9 History after the Mongols10 Travels and Excursions after11 On to the Twentieth Century4 Contemporary Food1 Lifestyles2 Bread3 The All-Important Noodle4 Other Grain Foods5 Cooking Meat6 Dairy Foods 7 Other Drinks8 Vegetables9 Sweets10 Spicing11 Cooking Utensils5 Food by Country1 Afghanistan’s Food1.1  Dopiaza2 Eastern Iran’s Food3 Uzbekistan’s Food4 Tajik Food5 Kyrgyz Food 6 Kazakh Food7 Azerbaijan food, and Central Asian Food in Turkey8 Uighur Food9 Mongol Food10 Kalmyk Food11 Chinese Food, the Central Asian Connections in Ming and Today12 Chinese Food Today: The Central Asian Connection13 Korea and the Eurasian HeartlandConclusion, The Next Step: Silk Road as Metaphor, Seattle, the Silk Road, and the Pacific RimAppendix: Summary of Western Plants in the YSZY and the HHYFBibliographyIndex