Persian Delicacies: Preserving Family Legacy (+ 3 Delicious Recipes)

Estimated reading time: 6 minutes

One woman’s labor of love to archive her family’s heritage results in a gorgeous cookbook that feeds us body, mind and spirit

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When my daughter graduated from college and moved back home a few years ago, she started cooking and experimenting with Persian dishes. She asked me about traditional Persian recipes such as Ghormeh Sabzi (Herbed Stew) and Polo Gojeh (Tomato Rice). It was then that I realized that if I didn’t write down our family recipes, the important stories and our language would be forgotten in a matter of a generation or two.

That was my incentive in which I highlight Iranian food and discuss some of the customs of Persian Jewish families.