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Bari Pearlman

Tsampa

  • Documentary
RELEASE

2011-10-14

BUGET

N/A

LENGTH

7 min

Description

A young nun quietly prepares tsampa in a traditional yak tent, treating viewers to a brief lesson in how to make eating a mindful act. Tsampa—sometimes called the Tibetan national food—is a mixture of roasted barley flour, yak butter, and tea, and is often the only food available to the subsistence farmers and yak herders of rural Tibet.

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