Review
'Enteraining the Persian Way' is more than just a recipe book: it is a travelogue and diary, recapturing everyday life and events in old Persia. Many of the dishes are vegetarian and the emphasis is on low-fat, healthy eating with not too much spice. The sweetmeats and pastries section is mouth-wateringly good. --Company
The most intriguing aspect of Persian cuisine, as 'Entertaining the Persian Way' reveals, is it's inventive combination of sweet and savoury as in meat, chicken or beans stewed with fruits and spices. The book suceeds where British restaurants emulating this idea have failed. --The Sunday Times
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A Treasury of Persian Cuisine is a fascinating insight into another culture and another history and its reflection in a different cuisine. Shirin Simmons takes us thousands of years back to a Persian civilisation that existed before the Greeks were heard of, then forward via Artaxerxes and Ghengis Khan to today s Islamic state of Iran, interweaving the whole with a broad knowledge of the traditional foods of the region and their significance. The qualities and medicinal properties of the ingredients she cites are detailed in depth and their place and relevance in our diet is explained.
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