“Food is at the centre of Persian culture and during Nowruz especially, people get together and as Persians we love to overfeed people.' The Star's karonliu talks to Shirin Nezafati about food and celebrations for Persian New Year.
An aromatic cloud of dill, curly parsley and garlic wafts from the pot when electrical designer Shirin Nezafati lifts the lid to check on herba tahdig, a Persian herbed rice with a crispy golden brown crust on the bottom. The pot is lined with potato slices as she opted for a potato crust.It’s stunning: the flecks of finely chopped herbs and slices of caramelized potatoes being illuminated by the afternoon sun shining through the kitchen window of Nezafati’s home.
Regardless, the sabzi polo she’s just made tastes fantastic: pillowy basmati rice with a hint of garlic and bursting with a herbal zip. “Food is at the centre of Persian culture and during Nowruz especially, people get together and as Persians we love to overfeed people,” said Nezafati, who grew up in Tabriz, a large city in northwestern Iran. “We would never have just one main course ... we present a sense of bounty and joy.”
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