num_pages: 211
description: A relationship was a mathematical formula: the correct variables of age beauty morality and finances were entered and the output was a successful peaceful marriage. It couldnt be therefore that their Iranian son could feel desire for someone six years his senior someone who didnt come to him pure and untouched. I was an amusing visitor from another world and soon enough I should return to it fading quietly into an anecdote In her thirties Jennifer Klinec abandons a corporate job to launch a cooking school from her London flat. Raised in Canada to Hungarian-Croatian parents she has already travelled to countries most people are fearful of in search of ancient recipes. Her quest leads her to Iran where hair discreetly covered and eyes modest she is introduced to a local woman who will teach her the secrets of the Persian kitchen.Vahid is suspicious of the strange foreigner who turns up in his mothers kitchen; he is unused to seeing an independent woman. But a compelling attraction pulls them together and then pits them against harsh Iranian laws and customs. Getting under the skin of one of the most complex and fascinating nations on earth The Temporary Bride is a soaring story of being loved being fed and the struggle to belong.
language: English
title: The Temporary Bride: A Memoir of Love and Food in Iran
publisher: Virago Press Ltd