Tsampa

Tsampa - sometimes called the Tibetan national food - is a mixture of roasted barley flour, yak butter and tea, and is often the only food available to the subsistence farmers and yak herders of rural Tibet. In TSAMPA we watch as a young nun quietly preparing tsampa in a traditional yak tent, and are treated to a brief lesson in how to make eating a mindful act. A selection from Peabody Award-winning documentarian Bari Pearlman’s Nangchen Shorts series.