Najmieh Batmanglij

Najmieh Batmanglij

Najmieh Batmanglij at the farmers' market in Dupont Circle, Washington D.C.
Born	1947 (age 63–64)
Cooking style	Persian
Official website
http://www.najmieh.com

Najmieh Batmanglij is an Iranian-American chef and food writer.

Hailed as “the guru of Persian cuisine” by The Washington Post, Najmieh Batmanglij has spent the past 30 years cooking, traveling, and adapting authentic Persian recipes to tastes and techniques in the West. Her book Silk Road Cooking: A Vegetarian Journey was selected as “One of the 10 best vegetarian cookbooks of the year” by The New York Times; and her From Persia to Napa: Wine at the Persian Table won the Gourmand Cookbook Award for the world’s best wine history book of 2007. She is a member of Les Dames d’Escoffier and lives in Washington, DC, where she teaches Persian and Silk Road cooking, and consults with restaurants around the world. Her most recent book is Happy Nowruz: Cooking with Children to Celebrate the Persian New Year. .

Her sons are Rostam Batmanglij of the band Vampire Weekend, and Zal Batmanglij, director of the 2011 Sundance selected film Sound of My Voice.

Cookbooks by Najmieh Batmanglij

• Ma Cuisine d'Iran (Grancher, Paris, 1984)
• Food of Life (2010) [1] and New Food of Life: Ancient Persian and Modern Iranian Cooking and Ceremonies (Mage, 1986 and 1992-2009)
• Persian Cooking for a Healthy Kitchen (Mage, 1994, 2006)
• A Taste of Persia: An Introduction to Persian Cooking (Mage 1999-2006, I.B. Tauris, London 1999-2007)
• Silk Road Cooking: A Vegetarian Journey (Mage, 2002, 2004).
• From Persia to Napa: Wine at the Persian Table (Mage, 2006)
• Happy Nowruz: Cooking with Children to Celebrate the Persian New Year (Mage, 2008)

External links

• Najmieh's web site
• Mage Publishers

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