Following the Silk Roads: Anna Ansari on Identity, Trade, and the Flavors That Connect Us

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This week on Not From Concentrate, Catherine Smart talks with cookbook author and food writer Anna Ansari, whose new book, Silk Roads, explores the rich, interconnected cuisines stretching from East Asia to the Middle East. Anna’s path to food writing was anything but linear. She started as an international trade and customs attorney in New York before moving to the UK and finding her way into recipe testing, food writing, and cookbook authorship. In this conversation, she shares how her background in law, her Iranian-American identity, and her global perspective all shaped the book. Catherine and Anna unpack the idea of the “Silk Roads” — not as one single route, but as a vast network of…