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Ring in Spring by Celebrating the Persian New Year with Weekend Kitchen
March 15 @ 6:30 pm - 10:00 pm
$95
Weekend Kitchen loves to celebrate different cultures through their foods and traditions. It introduces you to new ingredients, techniques and a glimpse at different cultures that you might not otherwise know about. Weekend Kitchen has a few Iranian friends and they always talk about their welcoming spring new year holiday called Norwus. And who couldn’t use a little spring right now!
Persian New Year or Nowruz is the celebration of the arrival of Spring! In Iran the vernal equinox has been celebrated for about 3000 years! This celebration comes with a myriad of traditions. The “Haft-seen” is set up – which is a collection of items that symbolize a different hope for the new year. There are 7 things that are always included: (1.) some kind of sprout or grass to symbolize renewal, (2.) dried fruit- Love, (3.) Apples- for health and beauty, (4.) Garlic- for medicine or self-care, (5.) A sweet pudding- for wealth and fertility, (6.) Vinegar- for patience and wisdom that comes with aging, and (7.) Sumac- for the sunrise of a new day. Chef Jeanine will help us prepare some classic Persian foods that are significant for Nowruz.
Persian New Year
Saturday March 15, 6:30 to 10:00PM | Cost $95
Chef Jeanine Kelly
Persian New Year or Nowruz is the celebration of the arrival of Spring! In Iran the vernal equinox has been celebrated for about 3,000 years. This celebration comes with a myriad of traditions. The “Haft-seen” is set up – which is a collection of items that symbolize a different hope for the new year. There are 7 things that are always included: (1.) some kind of sprout or grass to symbolize renewal (2.) dried fruit- Love (3.) Apples- for health and beauty (4.) Garlic- for medicine or self-care (5.) A sweet pudding- for wealth and fertility (6.) Vinegar- for patience and wisdom that comes with aging, and (7.) Sumac- for the sunrise of a new day. Chef Jeanine will help us prepare some classic Persian foods that are significant for Nowruz.
Menu
Adas Polo (Persian jeweled rice and lentils with raisins and dates)
Salad Shirazi with cucumber tomato
Sumo citrus and feta stuffed dates
Kuku Sabzi ( Persian herb omelet) served with feta and sumac onion
Sumac Onions
Mahi ba Zefferan: saffron fried Cod
Persian Love cake with almond flour Cardamon and crushed pistachios
BYOB (perhaps a nice Shiraz)
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