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Every guide on Pakistanee is researched from makers, sellers, museum and craft-council sources, and the buyer's side: how the real thing looks, what it should cost and which sellers ship abroad. Sources are listed at the end of each article. Corrections are welcome at hello@pakistanee.com. Read our editorial standards.
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Gifts & guides
What to bring back from Pakistan, what to send to someone who misses it, and what to order if you have never been. Twenty-eight gifts, from a two-dollar box of spices to an heirloom quilt.
Food & drink
Those small red boxes are how Pakistani families abroad cook like home. Here is what each one makes, how hot it is, and how to use them well.
Food & drink
A spoonful of ruby-red syrup, a glass of cold water or milk, and the fast is broken. The story of Rooh Afza, why there are three of them, and how Pakistanis drink it.
Food & drink
No spices, no tea bags, no shortcuts: strong granular tea, whole milk and sugar, boiled until the colour is just right. Here is how Pakistanis make the tea they drink five times a day.
Food & drink
The pink salt in kitchens from Texas to Tokyo is dug out of one range of hills in Punjab. Here is the mine, the 600-million-year-old sea behind it, and what the label leaves out.
Craft & culture
Peacocks, flying horses, eyes against envy and a line of poetry on the tailgate. How Pakistan’s working trucks became the country’s most famous folk art.