Getting Started
Source: Rosa Montazemi's comprehensive cookbook: Honar-e Aashpazi or Art of Cooking (published over 30 times in Iran) was consulted in preparation of some of the recipes.
Conversions: The metric system has been used for weights. To convert, note that one pound equals 450 grams and 1 kg equals 2.2 pounds.
Note: The miniature painting on the right was scanned from:
The Ruba'iyat of Omar Khayyam (page 91)
Translated by Peter Avery & John Heath Stubbs
Penguin Books, England 1984
ISBN 0 14 00.5954 7
Dreaming when Dawn's Early Light was in the sky
I heard a Voice within the Tavern cry,
"Awake my little ones, and fill the Cup
Before Life's Liquor in its Cup be dry".
by Khayyam
(translated by Edward Fitzgerald; translation edited by Farzin)
