* The New Persian Kitchen
Website: http://louisashafia.com/category/lucid-recipes/
- Rice with Favas and Dill (Baghali Polo) via Food 52: https://food52.com/recipes/41908-rice-with-favas-and-dill-baghali-polo
- Eggplant and Tomato Stew with Pomegranate Molasses via Food 52: https://food52.com/recipes/23562-eggplant-tomato-stew-with-pomegranate-molasses
What We Have Cooked / Our Recommendations: Nothing yet - check back!
The New Persian Kitchen by Call Number: *ORDERED - 3/2021ISBN: 9781607743576Publication Date: 2013* Note that we do not yet own this book, but in putting together these cookbook pages, we came across several titles that we wish we owned, and so are adding them to our virtual collection as a promise to you that we will be adding them to our print collection once we return to the Guerreri Academic Commons!
While a few Persian recipes ended up in her first cookbook, it wasn't until she really started researching and experimenting with recipes for her second cookbook titled The New Persian Kitchen, that author and chef Louisa Shafia really discovered her Iranian culture. Her father, an Iranian immigrant, didn't speak much about his past, and Shafia had grown up in America, not knowing or hearing much about her Persian heritage or knowing her extended Iranian family members. The New Persian Kitchen changed all of that, and now she specializes in the food of Iran - particularly healthy, vegetable centric food.