num_pages: 384
description: Winner of the IACP 2019 First Book Award presented by The Julia Child FoundationLike Madhur Jaffrey and Marcella Hazan before her Naz Deravian will introduce the pleasures and secrets of her mother culture's cooking to a broad audience that has no idea what it's been missing. America will not only fall in love with Persian cooking it'll fall in love with Naz. - Samin Nosrat author of Salt Fat Acid The Four Elements of Good CookingNaz Deravian lays out the multi-hued canvas of a Persian meal with 100 recipes adapted to an American home kitchen and interspersed with Naz's celebrated essays exploring the idea of home.At eight years old Naz Deravian left Iran with her family during the height of the 1979 Iranian Revolution and hostage crisis. Over the following ten years they emigrated from Iran to Rome to Vancouver carrying with them books of Persian poetry tiny jars of saffron threads and always the knowledge that home can be found in a simple perfect pot of rice. As they traverse the world in search of a place to land Naz's family finds comfort and familiarity in pots of hearty aash steaming pomegranate and walnut chicken and of course the crispy golden jewels of rice that form a crust at the bottom of the pot. The best part saved for last.In Bottom of the Pot  Naz now an award-winning writer and passionate home cook based in LA opens up to us a world of fragrant rose petals and tart dried limes music and poetry and the bittersweet twin pulls of assimilation and nostalgia. In over 100 recipes Naz introduces us to Persian food made from a global perspective at home in an American kitchen.
language: English
title: Bottom of the Pot: Persian Recipes and Stories
publisher: Flatiron Books