Join us for two of Detroit's finest: Anna Ansari and Shuba Shekar to celebrate Anna's debut cookbook, Silk Roads. Anna is joined in conversation in Shuba Shekar, author of Kitchen Table, an anthology of recipes and stories as shared by residents and hospitality veterans of Metro Detroit.
In this rich and delicious cookbook, Iranian-American cook and writer Anna Ansari takes us on a culinary, historical, and personal odyssey across the Silk Roads. Many of the gorgeous photos reflect memories and sacred spaces around Detroit. It's truly a loveletter to the many diasporas the city is proudly home to.
Weaving together essays, family photography and 90 recipes, Ansari brings life to the flavors of the Silk Roads – from the walnut groves of her father’s Iranian childhood, across Central Asian markets brimming with fragrant melons and thronged with fat-tailed sheep, and into the neighborhoods of modern-day Chinese cities.
Discover delectable dishes from Baku to Beijing – Azeri-Iranian stews served with crispy-bottomed rice, dill-infused noodles from Western Uzbekistan, Georgian cornbread, Uyghur lamb chops and all kinds of dumplings, from fat, spiraled oromo to tiny, stuffed dushbara in a delicate saffron broth. Plus, you’ll find refreshing drinks and sharbats, and American-inspired desserts like apple pie with quince, sticky persimmon pudding, and walnut-studded spiced blondies.
