🧵 4/Taste of Persia

This is a book for those who want a bit of wanderlust in their lives, and to know more about the regions that the book focuses on.

It is definitely a carnivore's book, for those willing to cook/eat a wide range of body parts.

(I did find a couple of recipes I am interested in. An eggplant dish and a purslane soup.)

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🧵 3/Taste of Persia

I have slight bias against cookbooks from different cultures that are written by fly-in-fly-out authors - I have seen some horrible examples.

But I have to recognise the valuable contribution that many have given us - and some of these sit on my own shelves. Elizabeth David and Paula Wolfert to name two. And such books often provide valuable cooking information that can be missed by authors who grew up with techniques and ingredients.

So, as a first introduction to a region, these FIFO authors can be valuable. (Then perhaps try to follow up with an author native to the region.)

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🧵 2/Taste of Persia

This is a large book with a lot of information besides the recipes. It is a perfect coffee table book, and also one to pick up now and then to read more about the represented countries. Each recipe is well explained with a lot of information about dishes and ingredients in many of the recipes.

It is a glossy book - not good for writing notes in, but has a pleasant enough "coffee table" feel about it.

I can't comment a lot on the recipes as there are so few representative vegetarian ones. But they appear to veer away from the usual recipes that you find in similar books. This is a good thing - how many standard dolma recipes do you really need?

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🧵 1/Taste of Persia

For the final book in the current focus on #RoundTheWorld , I thought it was a book on Persian food. Instead, it is focused on Persia and its neighbouring countries - a collection of regions that aren't often represented in cookbooks (yet).

Taste of Persia: A Cook's Travels Through Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Iran, and Kurdistan, by Naomi Duguid

Published: 2016
Pages: 401
Publisher: Workman

There are 155 recipes, 104 of which are meat- and egg- free, but comprise all sorts of recipes. There is NO focus on vegetarian dishes or even vegetable dishes without a meat component. Pretty sad, even for 2016.

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