In Turkey and Azerbaijan, Street Vendors on the Run
Turkish Airlines recently started flying between Istanbul and the Azeri enclave of Naxcivan, but now something else is linking the two places: both are cracking down on street food vendors. As RFE/RL...
View ArticleAzerbaijan's Minister of Caviar and Juice
Food is big business, even more so in Azerbaijan, as Foreign Policy's Joshua Keating reports in his "Wikileaked" blog. In one of the Wikileaks cables from the United States embassy in Baku, Keating...
View ArticleAzerbaijan: The Food is Always Cheaper on the Other Side
A short video clip from RFE/RL has great footage from the Azerbaijan/Iran border, where thousands of Azeris now line up every day in order to get to the other side to buy basic food staples, which have...
View ArticleAzerbaijan: The Global Food Crisis's Impact
The Guardian has a great photoessay looking at how the global rise in food prices is impacting Azerbaijan. It can be found here.
View ArticleAzerbaijan: A Journey Through the Land of "Jam and Honey"
Heading out of Baku, the Sydney Morning Herald takes a food-centric tour of the Azeri countryside and likes what it finds. The article can be found here.
View ArticleAzerbaijan: French Star Power to Boost Local Cuisine
French actor Gerard Depardieu may be known for his string of movie hits and, lately, for his increasing girth, but soon he may be come to known as the public face of Azeri cuisine. According to the...
View ArticleAzerbaijan: The Caspian's Magic Waters?
The Caspian Sea has long meant many things to many people, but one Azeri scientist is now claiming that the brackish body of water could serve as an irrigation source for his country's farmers. In...
View ArticleOil-Rich Azerbaijan Now Home to World's Largest KFC
Its oil riches have helped Azerbaijan achieve or work towards a number of impressive global records: the world's tallest flagpole, the world's tallest building and now, the world's largest KFC...
View ArticleAzerbaijan Vows to Take On Armenian "Cuisine Plagiarism"
Azerbaijan may be surrounded by simmering geopolitical crises, but the country's Ministry of National Security knows what the real challenge facing the country is: Armenian "plagiarism" of Azeri...
View ArticleIn Azerbaijan, Cooking up a Stew with Political Ramifications
The increasingly indispensable Roads & Kingdoms blog has a wonderful new piece that takes a look at the Azeri tradition of cooking up khash, a hearty though labor-intensive stew made using a...
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