Food of Life Ancient Persian Modern Iranian Cooking

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Description: Food of Life, a book of ancient Persian and modern Iranian cooking and ceremonies, draws from a culture where the first recipes were written 4000 years ago in a cuneiform script on clay tablets. In Iran duality and balance have always played an important role, not only in such ancient concepts as good and evil, truth and falsehood or light and darkness but also in the nature of human beings. People are considered to have "hot" or "cold" natures as does each type of food. This concept of "hot" and "cold" has nothing to do with temperature or the spice and pepper content of the food. It is a system special to itself. These modernized primitive recipes help us balance the "hot" and "cold" of our diet and perhaps even the extremes of our lifestyles. 

These recipes, which were very well-received when first published in France, have now been adjusted for the measures and materials used in America. Each recipe is presented in a format that is brilliantly logical and marvelously easy to follow. You will learn how to cook rice, the jewel of Persian cooking, simply yet deliciously. And by combining it with a little meat, fowl or fish, vegetables, fruit and herbs, you have a balanced diet -- colorful yet healthy, simple yet exotic. 

Color photographs, poetry, myths, ceremonies and words of wisdom from the Mages of Persia make this book much more than a collection of recipes -- it is your key to one of the richest cultures in the world. 

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Condition: Good condition. Dust jacket has small bit of wear on edges.