Cultural legacy of the Silk Road: Exchanges of culinary traditions chinadaily.com.cn | Updated: 2024-08-30 15:35

Cultural legacy of the Silk Road: Exchanges of culinary traditions chinadaily.com.cn | Updated: 2024-08-30 15:35 https://www.chinadaily.com.cn/a/202408/30/WS66d1764ea3108f29c1fc94bb.html The ancient Silk Road facilitated the diffusion of various kinds of fruits, vegetables, spices and culinary traditions which we now take for granted. For example, as Professor Xi pointed out, beef and mutton that are used to make the famous Shaanxi dish niurou paomo or yangrou paomo, which means beef or lamb stew with pita bread, were introduced to China from Western Asia about 4,500 years ago.