History On Your Plate - Through The Silk Road
The ancient network of trading routes known today as the Silk Road, stretched through the ages and across half the world, from China in the east to Persia and on to the Mediterranean in the west. Each place on the Silk Road itself, has its own distinctive character and culture. It was along the caravan trails that these cultures passed from one civilization to another, to be absorbed and transformed into local specialties. Today we explore one such culinary bond that links distant and hostile cultures. Sanbosag A praise for a savoury snack called sanbusaj can be found in a 9th-century poem by the Persian poet Ishaq al-Mawsili. Recipes for the same are found in 10th–13th-century Arab cookery books, under the names sanbusak, sanbusaq, and sanbusaj . These are considered to be the early medieval form of the Persian snack sanbosag , which originated in the 11 th century and were inspired by the pyramids. Abu'l-Faḍl Bayhaqi, an Iranian historian, mentioned sanbosag in his book -...