Tuesday, June 09, 2026

The Silk Road

 

I have been reading this new book about travel in some very unusual places.
The recipes are fun to read, but I doubt that I’ll try them!
I wrote more about the silk road here: https://maefood.blogspot.com/2024/06/i-am-not-pilgrim.html
and here: https://maefood.blogspot.com/2020/03/what-did-marco-polo-eat.html

Images from Ansari’s Silk Roads

Fruit preserves in the style of the author’s family.



Reading Next: A different view of this history


A Long Time Ago

Many years ago, I read about medieval voyages in various contexts, and I wrote a book called Jewish Time Travel. Its pretty obscure though amazon.com still has a listing for it.




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