{"id":51102,"date":"2022-12-13T16:00:43","date_gmt":"2022-12-13T07:00:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2022\/dec\/13\/taste-of-nomadic-life-legacy-strokes-kazakhstan-acc"},"modified":"2022-12-13T16:00:43","modified_gmt":"2022-12-13T07:00:43","slug":"a-taste-of-the-nomadic-life-leaves-a-legacy-of-strokes-in-kazakhstan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=51102","title":{"rendered":"A taste of the nomadic life leaves a legacy of strokes in Kazakhstan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With high salt levels in traditional dishes linked to disease, health campaigners are urging change, from product labels to suggestions for alternative seasoning<\/p>\n<p>Kazakhstan\u2019s national cuisine is not complete without salt. It is in everything from <em>kurt<\/em>, a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/travel\/article\/20210426-qurt-a-kazakh-cheese-of-resilience\">hard cheese made by drying fermented milk<\/a>, to <em>beshbarmak<\/em> (\u201cfive fingers\u201d), <a href=\"https:\/\/www.internationalcuisine.com\/kazakh-beshbarmak\/\">a dish of boiled meat with <\/a>noodles, named because nomads traditionally used their hands to eat it.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou can\u2019t take our salty national dishes away from us,\u201d one Kazakh tells the Guardian. \u201cSome regions only eat salty horsemeat.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2022\/dec\/13\/taste-of-nomadic-life-legacy-strokes-kazakhstan-acc\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With high salt levels in traditional dishes linked to disease, health campaigners are urging change, from product labels to suggestions for alternative seasoningKazakhstan\u2019s national cuisine is not complete without salt. It is in everything from kurt, &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":446,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[59,262,61,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51102","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-global-development","category-kazakhstan","category-south-and-central-asia","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51102","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/446"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=51102"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51102\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51103,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51102\/revisions\/51103"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=51102"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=51102"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=51102"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}