Cuisine of the Khanates - From the days of Genghis Khan to the present, the food of the great Mongol empire has been shaped as much by its foreign rulers as by the lands it conquered.

From: World and I | Date: November 1, 2001| Author: cramer, marc | Copyright information

"My time in Mongolia taught me one thing about the Mongols," I remember my maternal grandfather saying. "Never underestimate them." When war broke out between Russia and Japan in 1904, my grandfather, a mercurial Muscovite fluent in seven languages, including colloquial Mongolian, grew tired of his role as head chef at our family's Moscow eatery and joined the czar's army. Quickly rising through the ranks, he was sent to Mongolia, not far from the Manchurian border, to supervise th...

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