A Thousand – Year–Old Hangover Cure

Kitâb al-Tablkh (The Book of Dishes) contains more than 600 recipes and medical remedies, including a cure for hangover called kkishkiyya. This stew of meat, chickpeas, and vegetables has a special ingredient known as kashk, a fermented dairy product thought to be the key to alleviating “excess heat in the head and stomach” brought on by copious amounts of alcohol. Today, kkishkiyya is still cooked in much the same way, mostly in northern Iraq and the Levant. See Kashk Soup with Chickpeas and Rice.