Crossroads of Cuisine: The Eurasian Heartland, the Silk Roads and Food

Crossroads of Cuisine provides a history of foods, and foodways in terms of exchanges taking place in Central Asia and in surrounding areas such as China, Korea or Iran during the last 5000 years, stressing the manner in which East and West, West and East grew together through food. It provides a discussion of geographical foundations, and an interlocking historical and cultural overview going down to the present day, with a comparative country by country survey of foods and recipes. An ethnographic photo essay embracing all parts of the book binds it all together, and helps make topics discussed vivid and approachable. The book is important for explaining key relationships that have not always been made clear in past scholarship.

Paul D. Buell, Ph.D., Part-time Faculty, University of North Georgia. Historian of Chinese medicine and Central Eurasia with special reference to the era of Mongolian Empire, the history of food and foodways, and the Age of Exploration. Sinologist, Mongolist, Turkologist.
E. N. Anderson, Ph.D., Professor Emeritus of Anthropology, University of California, Riverside. Human ecologist with interest in food production and consumption and foodways. Field research in Hong Kong, Malaysia, Mexico, British Columbia, and short periods in Mongolia, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Afghanistan.
Montserrat de Pablo Moya, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Faculty of Fine Arts, Cuenca, University of Castilla-La Mancha. Visiting Scholar, Max Planck Institute, Berlin. Professional Photographer and Artist, interest in the history of photography and documentary photography. Field work in Kazakhstan and Mongolia.
Moldir Oskenbay, Ph.D., Historian of traditional Kazakh culture and Central Eurasia with special reference to the ethnic history of Turkic tribes, era of Mongolian Empire and its aftermath. Strong secondary interests in comparative history of food and foodways.