Archaic Drinks: Sorghum Buza in Burundi

I’ve pulled this comment by Diana Buja on boza out of the comment section where it tends to stay hidden. Here’s what she has to say: “I just got back…

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Minute Rice and Nineteenth Century Urdu Poetry

Sometimes when you’re researching a topic, you run across a side issue that is almost irresistible. Here’s one of those. There I was trolling through the Encyclopedia Iranica for references…

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Archaic Drinks-Boza

A thread on the ever-interesting ASFS listserv threw up a link to this recipe for boza on a blog called Yogurt Land. Boza is another of those fascinating, fast-disappearing archaic…

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