Interview | Naz Deravian on how she became the sabzé lady
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🗓️ 5 March 2025
⏱️ 25 minutes
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In this episode, Leyla sits down with Naz Deravian, the wonderful author of the cookbook Bottom of the Pot, to discuss how she started the tradition of growing sabzé for Nowruz (the Perisan new year) along with her international group of followers. Growing sabzé is an integral part of the Nowruz tradition. It acts as the centerpiece for the table we need to set up for Nowruz. She'll be starting on March 7th, so listen to hear how you can join, and why it's important that you do so, no matter where in the world you are.
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| 0:00.0 | And there was a lot of interest, especially from non-Iranians who wanted to know, what are |
| 0:04.8 | you doing first of all? |
| 0:05.8 | Are you going to eat this? |
| 0:06.8 | Is it for the cats? |
| 0:07.8 | I don't know. So, noz de Ravion, salom, thank you so much for joining me again. |
| 0:39.2 | Salam, Leila, June. I'm so happy to be with you. |
| 0:42.8 | Me too. It's been a long, long time. |
| 0:45.4 | So we have a previous interview that we did with Nas, what, five, six, seven, eight years ago, a long time ago. |
| 0:52.3 | When did your book come out, your bottom of the pot? |
| 0:55.0 | Oh my gosh. It came out in 2018. Okay, 2018. So soon after that, we did an interview. Oh, |
| 1:02.6 | you know what? It was right at the beginning of the pandemic. That's why it feels like eight years |
| 1:06.4 | ago. The pandemic had just happened when, or maybe it was right before the pandemic yes i think we were |
| 1:12.8 | just about we were unsure of what was going to happen and yeah yeah so along yes yes yes but i will |
| 1:19.5 | say your book bottom of the pot has remained my favorite cookbook i look at it all the time still |
| 1:25.7 | even though in the beginning, Nas writes very clearly, |
| 1:28.6 | she says, you can make food out of this book a few times, but then abandon the book and do it |
| 1:34.6 | yourself. I still have not flown the coop yet, I have to admit. I encourage you. I'm sending |
| 1:41.0 | you off, Leila, June. Okay, I did do Adaspolo. Yesterday I made Adas Polo without the book. I did think about it. I was like, I'm talking to Nas tomorrow. I just have to do this. And it was good. You can do it. Thank you. But we have Nas here today. So you can go back to that interview. I'm going to link it to this episode. I highly encourage it. We talked about our main topic was how to raise kids being Nim Brune. Your kids were a lot younger then. Now they are, one is going to college. So a lot of things have changed. But today we want to talk specifically about Naz's. We're going to release this episode on March 5th. So when you |
| 2:18.7 | listen to this on March 7th, Naus is going to begin her yearly tradition of growing Sabze. |
| 2:25.8 | So that's what we're going to talk about today. So if you can tell us a little bit about this |
| 2:30.6 | tradition, what is, you know, what it is and why you started doing this |
| 2:35.5 | group Sabzeg growing. So first of all, the Sabzegrowing is not my tradition whatsoever. It's in |
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