The result, koumiss, is a tangy drink with the alcohol content of a weak beer. Alcohol may afford psychic pleasures and spiritual insight, but that’s not enough to explain its universality in ...
Windless. We create our own paltry wind by walking. To a remote Kazakh village: An inventive woman named Adiana Mairambayeva mixes her koumiss—the nomad elixir of fermented mare’s milk—in a ...