Phitti

Studded with raw nuts, raisins, goji berries and dried apricot, this energy-building bread is rich in proteins and antioxidants, and has sustained the local inhabitants of the remote and spectacularly mountainous Hunza Valley region in northern Pakistan for nearly 2000 years.

I remember eating this wholesome bread while trekking through the Himalayas, after trudging into another hill town, feeling the lack of oxygen, and watching school kids running up the stairs past us as if they