Title: Setting Off Description: Two Afghan Women, and their daughters, wait in a queue to board a bus in the Capital. Location: Kabul, Eastern Afghanistan. Circa: 1965

The most comprehensive collection of authentic Afghan recipes published in English, this cookbook brings the legendary hospitality and foods of the Afghan table to readers everywhere.Since ancient times, Afghanistan's location in the heart of Central Asia has made it a crossroads for multiple cultures and culinary influences. The ancient city of Kabul was a hub for European, Chinese and Indian merchants as well as intellectuals and spiritual leaders. In this context, Afghanistan's rich and multifaceted culinary identity evolved.To this day, Afghans retain the tradition of preparing food with freshly harvested ingredients. In most villages, flour is still ground in local mills and cows are milked daily, and the milk is then processed into fresh butter or yogurt. Kabobs, ranging from chicken, beef, lamb and fish, are seasoned with delicate spices before grilling. A variety of fresh vegetables, fruits, and herbs, along with lentils and meat, are used to prepare traditional stews called qurmas. Considered Afghanistan's national food, rice dishes called palow are cooked with meat, onions, and distinctive spices such as cumin, cardamom, cinnamon, cloves, and black pepper. Dough prepared with fresh ingredients is shaped into bread, cookies, and cakes before being baked in a preheated ground oven called a tandoor. Aromatic spices and crunchy roasted nuts combined with fresh milk and wheat create unique desserts that are simple to prepare but deliver impressive results.Kabul native Zarghuna Adel brings a lifetime of cooking experience and years of research into this unique cookbook, which features authentic Afghan recipes that were lost or forgotten in the course of four decades of war and displacement. This volume features over 225 recipes, each with easy-to-follow instructions and a color photograph. Fifteen chapters cover the range of Afghan culinary offerings, from.

Street scene in Kabul, Afghanistan in November 1966. (AP Photo)

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This book mainly focuses on statistical approach for landslide susceptibility mapping. This study was implemented in two locations of Afghanistan. The first location was Kabul city and second one is to validate the result of the same study in Faizabad city. The high mountains, human activity, seasonal rainfall, and earthquakes are the main reasons of landslide and rock fall in the area. The risk is very high but very few studies have been done and there is no data available, Therefore, this book focuses on data collection, compare the statistical methodologies and their combination to create high accuracy of a landslide susceptibility map and the result was validated using the newly designed tool. The new designed tool not only specify the suitable critical boundary for the analysis with the lowest miss alarm rate but also provides a numerical argument to select the rest of the classification. Finally, from the result of these studies high accuracy landslide susceptibility maps were created for Kabul city, Faizabad city of Afghanistan and it is expected to be used in landslide prevention planning in the future.

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