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Behind the Story: Bringing Iran Home

By Todd Coleman

We've covered much of the Middle East at SAVEUR — the food of Lebanon, the food of Afghanistan, the food of Turkey — but until this year we'd never covered Iran. The country's distinctive Persian cuisine contains echoes of its neighboring countries, but it also possesses something ineffably its own. It's a repertoire of complex, sophisticated dishes with a tremendous courtly formality — one of the world's great cuisines. But it also posed a major obstacle. Keep reading »

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