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Cooking the Books LIVE: Anna Ansari
Season 25 · Episode 8

Cooking the Books LIVE: Anna Ansari

Silk Roads: A Flavour Odyssey from Baku to Beijing

Cooking the Books with Gilly Smith · Gilly Smith

October 30, 202555m 17s

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Show Notes

This week, we’re with Anna Ansari, the American-Iranian author of Silk Roads: A Flavor Odyssey with Recipes from Baku to Beijing.


We meet at Helm Gallery in Brighton’s North Laine, in front of a live audience which includes members of the Network of international Women whose debate about the culinary variations of Kuku from Iran and Iraq to Syria, Jordan and Yemen becomes particularly heated in the Q&A. Food, travel and geopolitics, food memory and food identity - it's all here among many of the people who understand these issues most.


You can buy Silk Roads from the Cooking the Books shop at Bookshop.org by clicking on the link, which supports this advertising free podcast.


And do pop over to Gilly's Substack for the recipe for kuku and pictures of the live podcast event.


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