Publisher's Synopsis
From photographer and food writer Saghar Setarah comes a cookbook full of rich new recipes that show how ingredients and recipes - unconstrained by borders - are shared and transformed through the immigrant experience. When Iranian writer and food photographer Saghar Setarah moved to Italy at the age of 22, she was enchanted by the rich food culture of her adopted country, and this inspired a curiosity in the cuisine of her homeland and the surrounding countries of the Levant and Eastern Mediterranean. Pomegranates and Artichokes is the story of Saghar's own culinary journey from Iran to Italy, in which she describes the many parallels that link Middle Eastern and Mediterranean food cultures. Divided into three sections representing stops on Saghar's culinary 'road trip'è Iran, In Between, and Italy - this book features more than 80 recipes celebrating the foods of these regions. Among the highlights are a simple Iranian breakfast platter, a celebratory Persian feast, Sicilian-style s
