Tibetan Yoghurt

In Tibet, food is generally considered to be either white or red, and traditionally people ate white food in summer and red food in winter. Loosely speaking, white food refers to milk and other dairy products, which tend to be more plentiful during the summer, while red food refers to meat, which is more available in wintertime.

Yoghurt has been a staple part of the Tibetan diet for as long as there have been dhri, or female yaks. In pre-modern Tibet, nomadic people were heav