Helen Saberi

This is an excellent cookbook. The recipes are easy to read, the author give adequate substitutes for ingredients hard to find in western stores and the blurbs on culture and hospitality make the food sound even better. I'm eager to try many of these recipes. I highly recommend!

This is one of my favorite cookbooks. The lamb and saffron rice recipe is superb, and I have made it for big dinners on several occasions, always to great accolades. In the dessert section there is a wonderful custard recipe (firni). My only addition is to add a splash of rose water at the end right before starting to cool.