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 | | Despite Tajikistan's rural population, the food at Dushanbe demonstrates a distinctly cosmopolitan bent, with Georgian, Russian, and Uzbek borrowings. |
 | | Achik-chuck is a salad of shaved ripe tomatoes and purple onions that forms a delicious cold soup in the bottom of the bowl, tipping its hat to gazpacho and V8. |
 | | Probably reflecting the hardscrabble nature of life in the capital, Dushanbe salad is a giant heap of cabbage, peppers, and kirby cukes dressed in strong vinegar laced with beet juice, giving the scarlet slaw a rather gruesome appearance. |
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