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Cooking Food For the Body, Mind and Soul: A Conversation With Chef and Restauranteur Asma Khan

Cooking Food For the Body, Mind and Soul: A Conversation With Chef and Restauranteur Asma Khan

Asma Khan introduced her blend of South Asian food to England in 2017 when she founded the Darjeerling Express, a brick-and-mortar restaurant in London that started off as a supper club.
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Flavors: Chicken Kabab Burgers

Flavors: Chicken Kabab Burgers

Like the iconic bun kabab of Karachi in Pakistan or Hyderabad in India, a spicy kabab inside a bun is a popular street food in certain regions of the Indian subcontinent.

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America's Music of the Nile

America's Music of the Nile

The Nile river has been used as motif, a metaphor or both in popular culture, most prolifically in music in the United States for more than 125 years. The most notable uses of the Nile arose during the jazz period, which peaked in the second half of the 20th century and continues to this day.
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Kummahs of Oman: Stitches of Tradition

Kummahs of Oman: Stitches of Tradition

Using as its base either calico or other stiff cotton cloth, the kummah is a link to the region's past as well as a personal statement for the present.
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Rajasthan's Folk Musicians Find New Ways To Play

Rajasthan's Folk Musicians Find New Ways To Play

Reaching out to new generations and global audiences, musicians in India's northwest state of Rajasthan draw on centuries of traditions that, to an untrained ear, may sound like Indian classical music. But what sets them apart are the regional stories they tell and the tone and power of the singers.

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Bridging Lyres and Lutes

Bridging Lyres and Lutes

For more than 4,000 years. people have adopted, adapted and adjusted the lute, resulting in its countless variations. Along the way. some innovations have proved both consequential and simple.
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