For many years now, Stalic has been, as they say, the “guru” of the Russian gastronomic Internet, the star and legend of the most popular culinary sites and forums. In fact, this pseudonym hides a living person: his name is Stalik Khankishiev, and he lived most of his life in Uzbekistan, and not even in the capital Tashkent, but in cozy, patriarchal Fergana. In your hands is his famous first book, published in 2006 - in a new guise, corrected, supplemented and decorated with new photographs of the author. This book is in no way a collection of recipes for Uzbek cuisine, not a guide to Central Asian cuisine or even, more broadly, to Eastern cuisine. This is an invitation to look at the world through the eyes of a passionate, talented and generous person who had the opportunity to penetrate an ancient and beautiful culture, filled with the aromas of such different countries and enriched with the traditions of such different peoples. This cuisine is bright, spicy, fun, sophisticated and yet simple. Such as Stalik himself and what his “philosophy of life” is.