{"version":"1.0","type":"rich","provider_name":"Acast","provider_url":"https://acast.com","height":250,"width":700,"html":"<iframe src=\"https://embed.acast.com/$/5e441f14c1617af6101e395d/69009401aee65e114a9cbe8b?\" frameBorder=\"0\" width=\"700\" height=\"250\"></iframe>","title":"Cooking the Books LIVE: Anna Ansari","description":"<p>This week, we’re with Anna Ansari, the American-Iranian author of <a href=\"https://uk.bookshop.org/a/2164/9780241694374\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Silk Roads:&nbsp;A Flavor Odyssey with Recipes from Baku to Beijing.</em></a></p><p><br></p><p>We meet at Helm Gallery in Brighton’s North Laine, in front of a live audience which includes members of the <a href=\"https://niwbh.org\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Network of international Women </a>whose debate about the culinary variations of Kuku from Iran and Iraq to Syria, Jordan and Yemen becomes particularly heated in the Q&amp;A. Food, travel and geopolitics, food memory and food identity - it's all here among many of the people who understand these issues most.</p><p><br></p><p>You can buy <a href=\"https://uk.bookshop.org/a/2164/9780241694374\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Silk Roads</em></a> from the Cooking the Books shop at Bookshop.org by clicking on the link, which supports this advertising free podcast.</p><p><br></p><p>And do&nbsp;pop over to Gilly's <a href=\"https://gillysmith.substack.com\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Substack </a>for the recipe for kuku and pictures of the live podcast event.</p>","author_name":"Gilly Smith"}