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Would you eat a stick of pure goat fat?

October 28, 2012by Meghan McCormack Leave a comment

Kyrgyz food entails some form of meat – goat, sheep and on special occasions horse but almost never chicken or other fowl – fried or boiled or stuffed into dumplings […]

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Goat Roast

A man prepares a goat head for eating. Different parts of the head – its eyes, ears, cheeks, tongue – will be parceled out among guests according to their age and station, in line with longstanding custom.

Women boil goat meet in the Kyrgyz mountains. In the background a Russian samovar, a special type of multi-serving tea kettle, has boiled.

Preparation of besh-barmak, a Kyrgyz national dish of boiled noodles and goat meat in an herbed goat fat sauce. Its name translates to “five fingers,” because it takes all five fingers to grasp the fat-covered noodles and meat.

Members of a Kyrgyz village’s government take a joint retreat in the mountains, eating the Kyrgyz national dish “besh-barmak.”