The Persia Cafe - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Persia Cafe write by Melany Neilson. This book was released on 2002-02-11. The Persia Cafe available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Hoping to use her cooking skills as her ticket out of her small Mississippi River town, "Fannie is the only one who can piece the story together" when a young black boy suddenly disappears. "What she uncovers is as unexpected as it is heartbreaking."--Jacket.
The Persia Cafe
The Persia Cafe - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Persia Cafe write by Melany Neilson. This book was released on 2001-01-31. The Persia Cafe available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Growing up in a small Mississippi River town, Fannie Leary works at the local café, trying to hold her own in a world of slow expectations and hard boundaries. Dreaming that her cooking will be her ticket out of Persia, she cleaves to Mattie, the irrepressible black woman who runs the kitchen; to Will, the troubled, quiet boy she falls in love with; and eventually to Sheila Jones, a reclusive young girl who has returned with her mother from California to the town after her father's death. But when a young black boy suddenly disappears and the town erupts in violence, she is the only one who can piece their story together. What she uncovers is as unexpected as it is heartbreaking.
The Persian Mirror
The Persian Mirror - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Persian Mirror write by Susan Mokhberi. This book was released on 2019-10-21. The Persian Mirror available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The Persian Mirror explores France's preoccupation with Persia in the seventeenth century. Long before Montesquieu's Persian Letters, French intellectuals, diplomats and even ordinary Parisians were fascinated by Persia and eagerly consumed travel accounts, fairy tales, and the spectacle of the Persian ambassador's visit to Paris and Versailles in 1715. Using diplomatic sources, fiction and printed and painted images, The Persian Mirror describes how the French came to see themselves in Safavid Persia. In doing so, it revises our notions of orientalism and the exotic and suggests that early modern Europeans had more nuanced responses to Asia than previously imagined.
The Last Days of Café Leila
The Last Days of Café Leila - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Last Days of Café Leila write by Donia Bijan. This book was released on 2018-04-17. The Last Days of Café Leila available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. “A glorious treat awaits you at the literary table of Donia Bijan.” —Adriana Trigiani Set against the backdrop of Iran’s rich, turbulent history, this exquisite debut novel is a powerful story of food, family, and a bittersweet homecoming. When we first meet Noor, she is living in San Francisco, missing her beloved father, Zod, in Iran. Now, dragging her stubborn teenage daughter, Lily, with her, she returns to Tehran and to Café Leila, the restaurant her family has been running for three generations. Iran may have changed, but Café Leila, still run by Zod, has stayed blessedly the same—it is a refuge of laughter and solace for its makeshift family of staff and regulars. As Noor revisits her Persian childhood, she must rethink who she is—a mother, a daughter, a woman estranged from her marriage and from her life in California. And together, she and Lily get swept up in the beauty and brutality of Tehran. Bijan’s vivid, layered story, at once tender and elegant, funny and sad, weaves together the complexities of history, domesticity, and loyalty and, best of all, transports readers to another culture, another time, and another emotional landscape.
Taste of Persia
Taste of Persia - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Taste of Persia write by Naomi Duguid. This book was released on 2016-09-06. Taste of Persia available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Winner, James Beard Award for Best Book of the Year, International (2017) Winner, IACP Award for Best Cookbook of the Year in Culinary Travel (2017) Named a Best Cookbook of the Year by The Boston Globe, Food & Wine, The Los Angeles Times, The New York Times, The New York Times Book Review, The San Francisco Chronicle, USA Today, and The Wall Street Journal “A reason to celebrate . . . a fascinating culinary excursion.” —The New York Times Though the countries in the Persian culinary region are home to diverse religions, cultures, languages, and politics, they are linked by beguiling food traditions and a love for the fresh and the tart. Color and spark come from ripe red pomegranates, golden saffron threads, and the fresh herbs served at every meal. Grilled kebabs, barbari breads, pilafs, and brightly colored condiments are everyday fare, as are rich soup-stews called ash and alluring sweets like rose water pudding and date-nut halvah. Our ambassador to this tasty world is the incomparable Naomi Duguid, who for more than 20 years has been bringing us exceptional recipes and mesmerizing tales from regions seemingly beyond our reach. More than 125 recipes, framed with stories and photographs of people and places, introduce us to a culinary paradise where ancient legends and ruins rub shoulders with new beginnings—where a wealth of history and culinary traditions makes it a compelling place to read about for cooks and travelers and for anyone hankering to experience the food of a wider world.
