Immersive Uzbekistan Cooking Experience in Brooklyn Home

One of the coolest things I've EVER done in NYC: an immersive Uzbekistan cooking workshop in the home of an Uzbek immigrant. Wow! I spent my day with Damira, a woman who moved to Brooklyn from Samarkand, Uzbekistan in 2013 to be closer to her children who were studying in America. Through the League of Kitchens cooking program I was able to enter her home to hear her story, learn her family recipes and have a cultural exchange. Many of the dishes highlighted the medicinal properties of food. For instance, while making beef and vegetable stew Damira explained that one cilantro seed per day keeps the doctor away, that pungent Uzbek cumin naturally kills food-borne bacteria and that cabbage is an anti-inflammatory. In fact, I’m told that if I’m ever feeling pain I can bandage a cabbage leaf to the area that hurts and it will go away. Read the post about my experience here: http://epicureandculture.com/brooklyn-cooking-classes-uzbekistan/