Speak Lesson 59 | Persian Food
Learn Persian with Chai and Conversation
Chai & Conversation
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🗓️ 8 June 2017
⏱️ 14 minutes
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Summary
In this lesson, we learn the langauge associated with one of the most important parts of Persian culture- food. We learn vocabulary for different Persian dishes, how to consume Persian food, and how to talk about it afterwards. This lesson might make you hungry, somake sure to have at least a little something to eat before listening to it! Also, here are some links to some of our favorite Perisan recipes and food blogs:
- Najmieh Batmanglij's recipes are amazing
- Turmeric and Saffron is one of the best Persian food recipe blogs, with recipes for some of the foods we mentioned in the podcas
- Ariana Bundy has amazing videos with lots of delicious Persian recipes
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| 0:00.0 | Learn Persian with Chai in conversation. |
| 0:02.9 | Lesson 59. |
| 0:27.6 | Hello and welcome to Lesson 59 of Learn Persian with Chaiang Conversation. |
| 0:36.0 | I can't believe we made it this far in the series without having an entire lesson devoted to one of my favorite parts of Persian culture, and that is the food. |
| 0:39.7 | Now, Matt, I know that at this point you know how important food is in the Persian culture, and that is the food. Now, Matt, I know that at this point, you know how important food is in the Persian culture. I've definitely gotten a good taste of Persian cuisine, |
| 0:45.0 | both through Lodin's cooking and her moms. Now that we live in Dallas, we're invited over all |
| 0:50.7 | the time for lunch or dinner with the family, which is always so amazing. |
| 0:55.4 | Yes, a lot of social interactions in Persian culture revolve around an elaborate meal. |
| 1:00.5 | What's your favorite, Matt? |
| 1:02.0 | Hmm. It's hard to choose, but I'd probably have to be a bit cliche and go with Gorma Sabzi. |
| 1:08.2 | You're right. That's definitely cliche, but I might have to agree with you on that one. We've covered Gorma Sabzi. You're right. That's definitely cliche, but I might have to agree with you on that |
| 1:11.8 | one. We've covered Gorma Sabzi before in previous lessons, but after kebabs, it's one of the most |
| 1:16.9 | iconic Persian meals. It literally means gourmet greens and consists of amazing green herbs, |
| 1:22.3 | mixed with a little bit of stewing meat and kidney beans, and served on Basmati rice. So anyway, we've talked about food at length |
| 1:29.2 | in the context of being hosted in the concept of tarof, but not really about the food itself. |
| 1:35.1 | So we're devoting this entire lesson to that one topic, food or in Persian, Gaza. |
| 1:41.5 | The timing of this lesson is pretty good, actually, because I had just completed two weeks of a complete education in Persian cooking with my Amme Mourg-Dhe. |
| 1:51.1 | She flew down from Canada so that we could work on a series of videos together showing the art of Persian cuisine. |
| 1:56.9 | In this lesson, I'm going to share a bit of knowledge that I gained in those two weeks. |
| 2:05.3 | So sorry if you haven't had food while listening to this lesson, it might make you a bit hungry. So to begin with, Persian cuisine is a bit different than some other traditional cuisines, |
| 2:10.7 | in that it's not very heavy on spices. Think, for instance, about Indian food, or Thai food, |
| 2:15.6 | or Mexican food, you can identify a lot of their dishes based on the spices that have been used. |
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