Bukhara, and Khiva are straight out of a fairy tale. Add to that vibrant bazaars, ancient caravanserais, and hearty Central Asian cuisine, and you’ve got a destination that’s equal parts exotic and ...

Bukhara, a city along the route, was at the heart of this textile tradition. Inspired by this rich history is Bukhara — A Journey on the Silk Route, an exhibition curated by David Housego and ...

Uzbekistan's beloved national dish, plov, is widely believed to have aphrodisiac ... trading – Khiva is undeservedly overshadowed by Bukhara and Samarkand. Samarkand was a major Silk Road ...

A mild plov, each grain of rice separate and glossy ... Rahmatov and his brother, Azam Rahmatov, grew up in Bukhara, Uzbekistan, a city famous as a major trade center along the ancient Silk ...

The best food of our trip was served at a Bukhara suzani maker’s house, where we dined on cauldrons of plov – a rice-based dish topped with beef or lamb, raisins and yellow carrots – and ...

Beyond plov, Uzbekistan’s cuisine offers a feast of other flavours ... Tour guides are also great for helping you find the most picturesque picnic spot! Most famously, The Ark of Bukhara, which was ...

Rimma is from Bukhara, our next stop. She takes us to a family home for a cooking lesson, where matriarch Nellya Khamraeva shows us how to make the rice dish plov (Rimma translates her instructions).

The inaugural edition of the Bukhara Biennial, Recipes for Broken Hearts, will be curated by Diana Campbell, also of the Dhaka Art Summit. The interdisciplinary show will “explore the healing ...

This is further complicated by names like Bukhara and Samarkand for restaurants ... fava beans or chickpeas and end with something like a plov full of dry fruit, vegetables and yes, a little ...

About the country, Wanderlust said: ‘This central Asian gem is home to ancient cities such as Samarkand and Bukhara ... history and the UNESCO-protected plov (a meal of rice and meat), its ...

Ask why? Because I was born in Soviet/Russian Tashkent — far away from all-things Bukharian so rooted in historically-rich Bukhara and enchanting Samarkand.” Festivity has deep roots in the Bukharian ...