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SlurpingPus@lemmy.world 13 hours agoYou insulting Central-Asian bread can only mean that you lack any taste in regard to bread, or that you actually haven’t eaten Central-Asian breads, and perhaps only tasted a stale lavash shipped to you over two weeks.
Redjard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 hours ago
Or that the northern parts have been culturally genocided by russia and have not retained thwue original bread. The areas I listed all have some history of colonization.
SlurpingPus@lemmy.world 8 hours ago
Not only Russian language and foods have plenty of borrowings from Central Asia due to centuries of trade, but immigrants from the region settle in all the major Russian cities and bring their cuisine with them, both as street food and as restaurants specializing in cuisine of those countries. Dishes with tandyr bread are made in street shops. Multiple varieties of lavash and other bakery from Central Asia can be found in any supermarket in Russia.
But you also mention ‘north Central Asia’ specifically, which as far as I can tell is Kazakhstan. Well, Kazakhs were nomad herders for centuries and ate mainly meat and milk, only starting with cereals around eighteenth century, and particularly late nineteenth century when they began settling down more.
Pray tell, what original bread was ‘culturally genocided’ in these circumstances.
Redjard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 hours ago
Kazakhstan is quite far west as asia goes. I was thinking more novosibirsk. Height of India. and even further east. Bangladesh is about the center, so western mongolia and krasnoyarsk.
SlurpingPus@lemmy.world 8 hours ago
Central Asia is defined as Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan. Mongolia is in East Asia.
Anyway, I don’t know much about Mongolia and can’t say anything about its food, except that they were historically also nomadic, so I wouldn’t expect much agricultural cuisine. Wikipedia seems to agree, saying “Mongolian cuisine predominantly consists of dairy products, meat, and animal fats”. Same appears to be true for Tuvans, Buryats, and Altai people, if you’re hinting at those.
If you have some particular traditional bread in mind, please share.