Food Dictionaries

This growing compendium of food dictionaries is meant to quickly introduce you to a culture’s major dishes as well as the flavors and techniques that go into creating them.

March 18, 2025

The Kyrgyz Food Dictionary

Kyrgyz cuisine reflects the country’s heritage of pastoral nomadism. Life was spent moving livestock from pasture to pasture and living in collapsible, transportable yurts. The livestock themselves were the primary, sustainable food source. Everything else was either gathered from the land or traded for. The Kyrgyz did not engage in intensive settled agriculture until forced […]

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