Recipes for Broken Hearts: The Healing Power of Food

Traditional and contemporary Uzbek recipes that warm the heart, celebrating the healing powers of meaningful cooking and shared food.

An old legend claims that the staple Uzbek dish, palov, was invented by the tenth-century philosopher and physician Ibn Sina—also known as Avicenna—to mend the broken heart of a prince who could not marry his beloved, the daughter of a craftsman. Inspired by this story, the book explores the restorative power of cooking and food made with love, showing how a s...