Herat Noodle & Date Pilau

Herat was a major city at the intersection of the east-west and north-south trade routes linking China, India and the West. It was at Herat that the hardy two-humped Bactrian camels were exchanged for the faster one-humped dromedaries of western Asia and Arabia. Herat was also a meeting place of ingredients from Asia and Arabia, hence this recipe of rice, noodles and dates. During the height of the Silk Road trade one would find, at a caravansary or in the bazaar of Herat, Turkoman nomads a