Author Description

In the late twelfth and early thirteen centuries, Genghis Khan rules one of the history's largest land empires, dominating two dozen countries and stretching from the Black Sea in Russia to the South China Sea. The 120 easy-to-follow recipes from the four khanates (kingdoms) of the empire, which include the following modern countries: Mongolia, Chinese-controlled Inner Mongolia, China, Bhutan, Tibet, Azerbaijan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, Georgia, Armenia, Russia, Poland, Ukraine, Hungary, Burma, Vietnam, Iran, Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria, and Turkey. The author's insightful introduction, glossary of spices and ingredients, and list of sample menus will assist the home chef in creating meals fit for an emperor.