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Ancient Persian and Modern Iranian Cooking and Ceremonies
25th Anniversary Edition
Mage
April 2011
On Sale: April 7, 2011
640 pages
ISBN: 193382347X
EAN: 9781933823478
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New Food of Life is a treasury of 240 classical
and regional Iranian recipes. 120 color photographs
intertwined with descriptions
of ancient and modern ceremonies, poetry, folk tales,
travelogue excerpts, and
anecdotes make New Food of Life not just a collection of
recipes but also an
introduction to Persian art and culture.
Each recipe is presented in a format that is brilliantly
logical and marvelously
easy to follow. You will learn how to cook rice, the
jewel of Persian cooking,
simply yet deliciously. And by combining it with a
little meat, fowl, or fish,
vegetables, fruits, and herbs, you'll have a balanced
diet--colorful, yet
healthy, simple yet exotic.
Iranian festivals, ceremonies, and celebrations,
together with the menus and
recipes associated with them are described in detail:
from the ancient winter
solstice celebration, Yalda, or the "sun's birthday,"
which is the
origin of such Western holidays as Christmas and
Halloween, to the rituals
and symbolism involved in a modern Iranian marriage.
Like a magnificent Persian carpet, 1,000 years of
Persian literature and art
have been woven into the book. Food-related pieces from
such classics as the
10th century Book of Kings, and 1,001 Nights to the
miniatures of Mir Mussavar
and Aq Mirak, from the poetry of Omar Khayyam to the
humor of Mulla Nasruddin
are all included.
Now with the ingredients for Iranian food available in
most US cities, New
Food of Life makes accessible one of the world's
oldest--yet least known--culinary
traditions where the first recipes were written 4,000
years ago in a cuneiform
script on clay tablets.
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