CARAVANS & COMMISSARS

Heading east from the old city of Baku, one enters the city’s modern restaurant district, with restaurants from every corner of the globe. A glance through the windows of one cafe reveals gigantic dumplings hanging from the ceiling. Brought to Azerbaijan by Georgian immigrants, the garlic-shaped meat-filled dumplings are known as khinkali, and they are just one of the many types of dumplings found throughout the post-Soviet states. Today, dumplings can be found from China to