I have been struggling with creating momentum for my research this week. The combination of other work and some road blocks in research have slowed me down this week in terms of the Tongue Team project.
\nThe two main subjects I wanted to look into this week were the pillow-like oven tools for breaking bread and the stamper (chekish) used to make puncture designs in the naan bread. I expected, since these tools are used today, that there would be a fair amount written on both of these tools. I suppose I was wrong, or I have not found the right kind of search or type of source, yet. I googled “kashgar chekish,” “kashgar naan stamper,” “naan chekish,” “naan stamper,” and came up with mostly recipes and small portions of information on the cooking of naan in Kashgar. While this is fun to read and somewhat useful, I have not found what I was hoping to find: history and cultural influence of these tools. I am slightly disappointed and discouraged, but will try again and shift my focus and search in the hopes of better results.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
I have been struggling with creating momentum for my research this week. The combination of other work and some road blocks in research have slowed me down this week in terms of the Tongue Team project. The two main subjects I wanted to look into this week were the pillow-like oven tools for breaking bread … Continue reading this week… :\/<\/span>