Tibetan food, which evolved to sustain a hardy people living at an average elevation of 16,000 feet, is like no other food in the world. Who else but Tibetans have a great time drinking salty tea and eating sweet rice in the same sitting? Or grow up on a steady diet of roasted barley flour [...]
Your Insider’s Guide to Losar Eating — Part 2
February 17, 2012 By 5 Comments
This is the second of a two-part series on Tibetan New Year food traditions. In part one, we explored the traditions of the days leading up to Losar, including the preparation of Losar cookies (khapsay), the Eve of Losar Eve’s soup (guthuk), and the chemar bo. In part two we will look at the Losar holidays [...]
Your Insider’s Guide to Losar Eating — Part 1
February 12, 2012 By 6 Comments
In this two-part series, we’ll focus on Tibetan New Year holiday food traditions. At Tibetan New Year — Losar — which usually falls sometime during February or March, a typical central Tibetan family in the countryside will take a 5-day holiday to pray, sing, dance, drink a fair amount of chang, (a kind of beer [...]
Po Cha: Tibetan Butter Tea
January 1, 2012 By Leave a Comment
« Previous Page 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Next Page » For most people, Tibetan butter tea is an acquired taste, since it is savory rather than sweet, and has a completely unexpected flavor. Many non-Tibetans don’t care for it much at first, but come to love it when it [...]
