Sultan Mahmud Hassani shares traditional recipes he learned back home in Afghanistan and hopes to pass on an endangered cuisine culture to the new generation. Sultan Mahmud Hassani smiles as he recalls with fondness, and a tinge of nostalgia, his mother’s way of cooking Ashak (dumplings), a popular dish of his native Afghanistan. For Hassani, an Afghan-Dutch online chef and entrepreneur in Maastricht, Netherlands, Ashak is a time-consuming dish to ...