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Dumplings, plov, and politics: how food tells the story of a whole region

What do a dumpling, a loaf of tandyr bread, and a bowl of tea have in common? In Central Asia, almost everything.

In this course we treat food as evidence, a source as rich as any document or artifact.

We’ll read anthropologists, historians, and archaeologists, watch films, and in a campus teaching kitchen, cook and taste dishes from the region ourselves, asking what they reveal about culture, hospitality, and identity. No prior knowledge of the region or its languages is required; just bring curiosity and a willingness to think.