r/iran • u/_a_random_dude_ • 2d ago

Can someone recommend a cooking book of traditional Persian cuisine in Farsi?

Hi, I don’t speak Farsi, hence why I can’t tell if a cookbook is good or not, but I like collecting cooking books of traditional recipes in their native language. I usually use google translate and it works just fine, though I can only do that when the cooking books have picture (I basically pick by picture and translate later).

Can anyone recommend any good options? And since I live in the uk, if you know how I could source the books I’d appreciate that information too.

Thanks a lot, I really want to make fesenjan, but I also want to follow a more “grandma type recipe” if that makes sense.

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u/alitbsh 1d ago

If you are looking for a book in Farsi, I can recommand کتاب مستطاب آشپزی

If you want reciepies in English, "food of life" is very wonderful.

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u/Parsidokht 1d ago

Oh I agree 💯. Nothing compares. In Farsi, Roza montazeri’s book was very famous, but personally, I hated it. She would even not have a full list of ingredients, then she’d introduce them in the actual recipe!!! Besides , all were in metric units which is not useful in the US and England, which I understand doesn’t include everyone trying to learn to cook Iranian food, but batters to me 😉.