Description Wine is seen as the natural partner of many great cuisines, but few people associate it with Persian food, one of the world\'s most sophisticated culinary traditions.
Although these recipes are presented for the modern table, they are traditional--based on sources as va.
Grapes play a role in most of the recipes, whether in the form of the fruit, the leaf, the juice, the syrup, unripe grapes or their juice (verjuice), vinegar or wine.
The final section of the book offers 80 recipes, a guide to Persian hospitality, both old and new, and seasonal menus for various occasions.
There, in a kind of up-to-the-minute homage to the past, an Iranian-American named Darioush Khaledi uses the latest vinicultural techniques to make superb wines at a winery reminiscent of Persepolis, the ceremonial capital of the ancient Persian empire.
In this lavishly illustrated book, Najmieh Batmanglij explores that long and eventful history, then shifts her story to California\'s famed Napa Valley, half a world away.
After Islam came to Iran, Wine drinking sometimes slipped From public view, but it never disappeared.
Iran was one of the nurseries of the Wine grape, and, as empires rose and fell there, princes, priests, poets and people in ordinary walks of life all embraced Wine in various ways.
Since he wrote those words, however, winemaking has been traced all the way back to the northern uplands of the Fertile Crescent some seven millennia ago, the start of a journey that would take it across the Near East and then into Europe in the dawning years of civilization.
From Persia to Napa: Wine at the Persian Table weaves together history, poetry, a look at modern viniculture, and a wealth of recipes and Wine pairings to celebrate the rightful relationship of Wine and food on the Persian table"Whoever seeks the origins of Wine must be crazy," a Persian poet once declared, implying that simple enjoyment of this greatest gift of the grape ought to be enough.
The ties, in fact, are age-old.
Description Wine is seen as the natural partner of many great cuisines, but few people associate it with Persian food, one of the world\'s most sophisticated culinary traditions
