Nigel Slater’s adventure concludes in a country shrouded in mystery and often in the headlines – Iran.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Nigel Slater, English journalist, broadcaster and one of the most famous cooks and food writers of the world, documented his awe-inspiring journey through Iran to discover Persian food<\/a>, one of the oldest and most influential cuisines in the world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n In his show Nigel sets out to discover the secrets of Persian food<\/a>, one of the oldest and most influential cuisines in the world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Click here to see the video:<\/a> https:\/\/www.aparat.com\/v\/4SOiY<\/p>\n\n\n\n His adventure starts in Tehran<\/a>, where he gets the chance to try the most traditional Iranian breakfast, Kalle Pacheh. A dish which at first he seems reluctant to try, as in his opinion in this nose to tail eating to the extreme: \u201cthe flavors are going to be really quite strong” but surprisingly at the end, he describes it as \u201cheavenly\u201d. His journey then continues in Tehran<\/a> with trying a home-made Dizi cooked by his Taxi driver\u2019s wife and Ash-e-Reshteh in Grand bazar.<\/p>\n\n\n\n He then leaves Tehran to visit a pomegranate garden near the remote village of Anbu, where he enjoys observing the people celebrating the harvest time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Afterward, he visits the traditional bazaar of Rasht<\/a> near the Caspian Sea and eats the lunch with local fishermen, trying freshly- caught beluga and its caviar. Before heading back to Tehran, Nigel travels to further east to Torbat-e Heydarieh to witness the harvesting of saffron<\/a>, which undoubtedly characterizes Persian cooking more than any other ingredients. Here, he learns about the truly labor-intensive process of saffron production and also receives a plenty of it as a gift.<\/p>\n\n\n\n After coming back to Tehran, he visits Palladium Mall and tries Iranian version of International fast foods in its food<\/a> court. At the end of his journey, a restaurant owner in Tehran offers him a cookery lesson at his home to cook a forgotten Iranian dish<\/a> from the 16th century called Mutanjan. He recalls his overwhelming experience with the hospitality, the generosity and the amount of culture<\/a> he has seen on this journey to the heart of the Middle East.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Nigel Slater, English journalist, documented his awe-inspiring journey through Iran to discover Persian food, one of the oldest and most influential cuisines in the world.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":24117,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[849,1],"tags":[374],"class_list":["post-22967","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-food","category-tourism-iran","tag-persian-food"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/surfiran.com\/mag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Nigel-Slater-in-Iran-Iran\u2019s-Food-Culture.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/surfiran.com\/mag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22967","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/surfiran.com\/mag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/surfiran.com\/mag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surfiran.com\/mag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surfiran.com\/mag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22967"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/surfiran.com\/mag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22967\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":198558,"href":"https:\/\/surfiran.com\/mag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22967\/revisions\/198558"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surfiran.com\/mag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24117"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/surfiran.com\/mag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22967"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surfiran.com\/mag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22967"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surfiran.com\/mag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22967"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}