Cacik, Tsatsiki, Jajik, Must-o-Khiar

You have all had a version of this dish, I am sure. Every nation in the lands east of Athens and west of Tokyo makes something like it. The combo of cooling yogurt and even more cooling cucumber is a natural for mopping the sweat of summer heat and soothing spice-scorched taste buds.

Central Asia prepares a more soupy version, sometimes with dill or sumac, whilst in Iran, raisins, walnuts and rose petals are sometimes added. Indian cuisine, of course, offers you raitha. This