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Tibetan Plateau — tsampa has been the staple food of Tibet for over 3,000 years

Tibetan Tsampa (Roasted Barley Flour) Culture

Tibetan Plateau — tsampa has been the staple food of Tibet for over 3,000 years

Tsampa: the foundational food of Tibetan culture — roasted barley flour mixed with butter tea (po cha) and kneaded into a dough or eaten as a loose porridge. The roasting of barley at altitude produces a distinctive toasted, nutty flavour impossible to replicate with unroasted grain. Tsampa is both daily sustenance and spiritual ritual food.

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