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Saraban: A chef's journey through Persia [Hardcover]

Greg Malouf , Lucy Malouf
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  • Hardcover: 368 pages
  • Publisher: Hardie Grant Books (1 Nov 2010)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 1740668626
  • ISBN-13: 978-1740668620
  • Product Dimensions: 24.9 x 28.2 x 3.8 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 32,363 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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""Gorgeous photography makes this a coffee-table candidate, but the tour of these Middle Eastern countries, with the personal touch of this chef/writer team, will find you absorbing their words and recipes as well. You might even take this into the kitchen!" --"Chicago Tribune" on" Saha

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Following on from the success of their award-winning books, Saha and Turquoise, Greg and Lucy Malouf now explore one of the world s earliest and greatest empires: Saraban is an unforgettable journey through the culinary landscapes of ancient Persia and modern-day Iran. Persian cuisine is one of the oldest and most sophisticated in the world and its influence spread across India and the Middle East to North Africa and the Iberian Peninsula and even through Medieval Europe. It s a cuisine that is subtle, elegant and alluring, which rejoices in rice, uses fresh herbs in abundance and combines meat, fish, fruit and vegetables with exotic spices, such as saffron, cardamom and dried limes. In Saraban, Greg and Lucy discover a land where the rich diversity of climate, countryside, architecture and poetry provide a fitting background for an equal variety and richness of cuisine. Join them as they visit bustling bazaars and tiny soup kitchens, pick saffron before dawn and fish, in time-honoured tradition, from wooden dhows in the Persian Gulf.

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59 of 60 people found the following review helpful
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Following on from their earlier Saha and Turquoise, Greg and Lucy Malouf turn their attentions to Iran. In the same vein as those earlier books, it is mostly a travelogue and photograph album, and almost secondarily it seems a recipe book. 'Turquoise' I thought had too many photos of old blokes sitting around smoking tabs and kids mucking around in grubby back streets of Istanbul. 'Saha' was a bit better in that respect as the photographs were generally more food related and added to the 'food atmosphere'. This new book falls somewhere between those two stools, but having said that, this is probably a prime contender for the most visually stunning cookbook I have seen, with a riot of colour and patterns depicted in the country's art and architecture.

As to the recipes themselves, there are plenty of classics such as shirin polow, zereshk polow (here with rose petals), morasa polow (jewelled rice, here sadly somewhat understated compared to other cookbooks) and a version of duck fesenjan. However there's also a reasonable selection of items I haven't come across before despite having a sizeable collection of cookbooks of Persian and Middle Eastern cooking, from simple street food such as grilled corn on the cob but enlivened with sumaq and lime zest and juice, to koofteh Tabrizi, giant meatballs stuffed with fruit and nuts. I can't wait to have a go at the cardamom and pistachio fudge which undoubtedly tastes as amazing as it looks in the photograph (albeit in the photo it also contains rose petals which are not mentioned in the text - don't you just hate it when they do that in cookbooks?).

Would I recommend it? Well yes and no. As a lover of Middle Eastern food in general and Iranian food in particular, I can count myself content to include this in my collection. If you are happy to have essentially a coffee table book, fine. I'm not sure a book like this is something you would want to let anywhere near the kitchen lest it get splattered with your pomegranate molasses. If you want something more practical and potentially expendable, then for starters I would suggest The Legendary Cuisine of Persia or A Taste of Persia instead.
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Persian food is hearty yet healthy, loaded with flavour and aroma. Herbs feature heavily, used every bit as abundantly as in Vietnamese cuisine. By contrast, though, they're often added to long-cooked stews and egg dishes, resulting in deep, rich, elusive flavours that linger in the mind. Chapters are divided into topics such as 'Staples', 'Sweets' and 'Small Dishes', reflecting the generosity with which Persian food is presented.

Greg's recipes are consistently compelling, displaying a slight avant-garde spin toward traditional Persian recipes. From Barberi breads at breakfast to a Fresh herb stew with lamb and dried lime at dinner, opportunities for use are limitless. Tempting Cardamom-pistachio butter fudge jostles for attention alongside the 'Longest night grazing mix' or the clever Olive, pomegranate and grated walnut salad.

The Maloufs weave the tale of a relatively unknown cuisine with verve, revealing elements of the country's complex history. The book's design includes gold cut-outs dividing chapters and a dust jacket which unfolds to reveal beautifully patterned paper in warm earth tones.

When a book delivers such wealth, it's difficult to categorise. You have to make up your own mind...Enjoy
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Excellent value 11 May 2012
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Normally I like coffee table cookery books but this was so much cheaper on kindle and does not take up too much space so I can strongly recommend it
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