This article from University of Michigan’s LSA Magazine was an interesting read.
Brown finds that when we look closely at the historic foodways that brought us popular dishes, we are “forced to consider that cuisines and cultures can’t be reduced to a single ethnic group.” Dumplings, for example, can be mapped all over the world, and she believes the first dumplings were likely made in Central Asia, or somewhere along the Silk Road, and not in the Chinese heartland.
Gina Balibrera
What Can the Dumpling Tell Us About the History of the World? (LSA Magazine)
Scott Boehmer 