Cooking With Children to Celebrate the Persian New Year
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Najmieh Batmanglij
Hardcover 120 pages 8.5x11
193382316X
$40.00
2008
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Nowruz – the Persian New Year – is one of the world’s great festivals, a full month of activities celebrating the earth, the arrival of spring, and the rebirth of nature. Most of all, it is a festival for families. Children and adults alike can share in preparing special meals, decorating the house, and performing the many ceremonies that welcome the New Year. This book is a guide to customs thousands of years old yet as vital as ever – enjoyable for families no matter where they live or what their beliefs.
Happy Nowruz offers twenty-five fun, easy, and innovative Nowruz recipes, with lots of photos to show you what to do. This is an ideal guide for parents, teachers, and kids – age six and older – to know more about the origins of Nowruz and to get everyone involved in preparing for the arrival of spring by:
• baking Haji Firuz cookies • germinating seeds in eggshells • coloring eggs • making a Nowruz garland • jumping over fires • setting the Haft-sinn (seven-s) holiday table • planting narcissus and hyacinth bulbs • selecting and buying goldfish • banging spoons for trick-or-treating • cooking the Nowruz dinner • enjoying the Outdoor Thirteen picnic
Najmieh Batmanglij is the leading authority on Persian cooking and the bestselling author of the award-winning New Food of Life: Ancient Persian and Modern Iranian Cooking and Ceremonies, which the Los Angles Times called “The definitive book on Iranian cooking.” In Happy Nowruz: Cooking with Children to Celebrate the Persian New Year, Najmieh Batmanglij shares her childhood memories of Nowruz in Iran as well as the many inventive ways she has celebrated Nowruz with her own children as they grew up in America. This book also includes detailed descriptions of the Nowruz ceremonies as well as 25 recipes for cooking Nowruz dishes and pastries with children.
Introducing people to the
pleasures of Persian cuisine has been a lifelong mission for Najmieh Batmanglij. Her New
Food of Life: Ancient Persian and Modern Iranian Cooking and Cerimonies was called "The definitive book of Persian cooking" by the Los Angeles
Times, and her Silk Road
Cooking: A Vegetarian Journey was selected as one of the Vegetarian Cookbooks
of 2004 by the New York Times. She has spent the past 25 years traveling,
teaching cooking, and adapting authentic Persian recipes to tastes and techniques
in the West. She is a member of Les Dames d’Escoffier and has taught
and lectured throughout the United States. She currently lives in Washington,
DC, where she is teaching master classes in Persian cooking and is working
on a new book for children to cook with the family.
