Recommended Article: Cooking in Hunza
May 29, 2006 by Andrea 
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Filed under Announcements, Middle Eastern
Having spent a few years in the Middle East, I have an interest in the foods of the region. Saudi Aramco World magazine’s May/June edition has an article about the first-ever cookbook from Hunza, a high northern valley in Pakistan. If you are interested in traditional international cuisines, the article is definitely worth a look.
“Using their local ingredients, generations of women in Pakistan’s northernmost valley developed a remarkably imaginative culinary repertoire. Recently, some 25 women pooled their talents to produce the first-ever Hunza recipe book—and many of its offerings adapt easily to modern kitchens almost anywhere.”
The foods in the cookbook are traditional, although the article describes how the local cuisine has changed with the advent of a highway into the area. For example, the women used to gather salt to use in their cooking, but now they buy it at the local market, and the flavor is not quite the same. They also have a larger variety of foods available now.
The article includes some of the recipes from the book, such as Baloganze Pitchu and Hosarye Hoi, as well as some really nice examples of food photography. The magazine also included a classroom guide which contains a brief lesson on food photography.
