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Commerce, Cuisine and Cultural Exchange in Afghanistan, West Asia and Beyond MAGNUS MARSDEN An important trend in recent historical work on Afghanistan has been to shed light on the country’s connections to the wider world, both those pointing toward the importance of inter-Asian circuits of exchange and others that bring the country’s intimate interactions with the West into vivid relief. Such work mostly attempts to track the movement of either ideas or commodities and is predominantly the preserve of historians of religion and of commerce. What, however, can a consideration of a neglected yet powerful aspect of Afghanistan’s regional and global interconnectedness – its food – tell us about the ways in which the country has influenced the daily lives of its neighbouring peoples, as well as those far beyond? Let me start my brief excursion into Afghan food and connectivity in Saudi Arabia. Bukhari rice is a popular dish across the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia: steamed with oil-a-plenty, carrots, raisins, and spices favoured in the Middle East (cardamom, coriander, cumin, and cinnamon), the delectable long-grain sela rice (mainly imported to the Kingdom from India and Pakistan) is served in restaurants on enormous platters and mostly topped with a
Afghanistan: Journal of the American Institute of Afghanistan Studies – Edinburgh University Press
Published: Apr 1, 2021
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