Aryan Cuisine

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Tandoor ovens were first discovered approximately 2600 BC in the Indus Valley Civilization, one of the world's oldest known civilizations. Archaeologists have discovered clay oven remnants with signs of cooked food at sites such as Kalibangan in India and Harappa in current day Pakistan History of Tandoor  The tandoor is used for cooking in Southern, Central, and Western Asia, as well as in the South Caucasus. The English word comes from Hindi / Urdu tandūr, which came from Persian tanūr, which all mean (clay) oven. The Leyla-Tepe culture of ancient Caucasian Albania belongs to the Chalcolithic era. It got its name from the site in the Agdam district of modern day Azerbaijan. Its settlements were distributed on the southern slopes of Central Caucasus, from 4350 until 4000 B.C. According to the Dehkhoda Persian Dictionary, the Persian word ultimately came from the Akkadian word tinūru, which consists of the parts tin “mud” and nuro/nura “fire” and is mentioned as early as in ...

Language/linguistics About 99% of languages spoken in Pakistan is Urdu which is came from Indo-Iranian (sub-branches: 75% Indo-Aryan and 24% Iranian), a branch of Indo-European family of languages. All languages of Pakistan are written in the Perso-Arabic script, with significant vocabulary derived from Arabic and Persian. Punjabi, Seraiki, Sindhi, Pashto, Urdu, Balochi, Kashmiri, etc. are the languages spoken in Pakistan. About 69% of languages spoken in India is Hindi, Bengali, Telgo, Malayalam and so many others are Indo-Iranian (sub-branch: Indo-Aryan), 26% are Dravidian, and 5% are Sino-Tibetan and Austro-Asiatic, all unrelated/distinct family of languages. Most languages in India are written in Brahmi- derived scripts such as Devangari, Gurmukhi, Tamil, etc. Hindi, Bengali, Gujarati, Marathi, Telugu, Tamil, Malayalam, Assamese, Punjabi, Naga, and many others are the mother-tongue languages spoken in each of India's states. As you can see both countries have distinct linguisti...

The Aryans  - During the Aryan period, the cuisine of the Great Hindu Empires concentrated on the fine aspects of food and understanding its essence and how it contributed to the development of mind, body and spirit.  After this period the cuisine was influenced by the following conquests from other cultures. Bronze Age  on the Pakistani around 3300 BC with the beginning of the Indus Valley civilization. Inhabitants of the Indus Valley, the Harappans, developed new techniques in metallurgy and produced copper, bronze, lead and tin. Alexander  Bring the cultural and eating habit of Assyria and Babylonia Mongolians  brought to India their hot pot cooking Persians the most notable later culinary influence in India was the influence of Persian rulers who established the Mughal Rule in India.  They introduced their penchant for elegant dining and rich food with dry fruit and nuts. Chinese  (from trading, and cult...