Omelet wrote on Sat, 26 Jun 2010 22:43:20 -0500:

>> "Dimitri" > wrote in message
>> ...
> >> "Omelet" > wrote in message
> >> news > >>> I know nothing about it but will check google... I knew
> >>> my new boss was mid-eastern but only finally worked up the
> >>> nerve to ask him where he was from today during casual
> >>> conversation in the break room. He is Iranian and so is
> >>> one of the new intake techs. :-)
> >>
> >> Look up Persian recipes as well. Many of the Iranians who
> >> came tend to call / consider themselves Persians.
> >>
> >> In LA there is a large close knit community of Iranian
> >> -Jews who left about the time Shaw was deposed and the
> >> theocracy was started.
> >>
> >> Dimitri
>>
>> Om,
>> I 'faved' a blog of Azerbajianian recipes. Is this something
>> you might be interested in? If so, email, and I'll send you
>> the link. -ginny

I just remembered that I had a menu from a recently opened and rather
good Persian restaurant in Rockville, MD: the Tanoor. Their menu is on
their web page at http://www.tanoorrestaurant.com/restaurant.html

As far as unusual dishes are concerned , I'll just mention three
vegetarian rice dishes, Zereshk Polo, Shirin Polo and Albalou Polo.
There are all sorts of interesting things in them like barberries,
almonds and saffron.There are also various stews and, of course, the
kebabs common to Middle Eastern cooking. I think a tanoor is much the
same thing as an Indian tandoor. They certainly cook bread (Taftoon) in
it just like Indians do.

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James Silverton
Potomac, Maryland

Email, with obvious alterations: not.jim.silverton.at.verizon.not