Savor the flavor and laugh along with the author as Reyna Simnegar teaches you about Persian cookery and life. Feldheim Publishing has done an outstanding job of presenting a handsome cookbook with ...

But as a visitor from another religion, I had the same giddy sense of discovery that I might have had if I’d slipped in undetected. The experience was new for me on two levels. I had neither been to a ...

A Venezuela-born, Catholic-raised Jew by choice, Reyna Simnegar was not her future mother-in-law's idea of a desirable match for her beloved son Sammy. The woman, a Persian Jew who fled Iran in the ...

Reyna Simnegar, author of "Persian Food From The Non-Persian Bride." (Courtesy of Reyna Simnegar) Hanukkah, the eight-day Jewish holiday marking the rededication of the Holy Temple in Jerusalem, began ...

Of the many unusual ingredients in Persian cuisine, rose water, which tastes like flower petals, may be the most exotic. Persians, according to Reyna Simnegar, the Jewish, Venezuelan-born author of ...

I felt my mother-in-law looking down from heaven with concern as I spooned chicken consommé powder into the Persian Noodle Soup from the new cookbook "Persian Food From the Non-Persian Bride and Other ...

When it was published – to considerable acclaim – in England last year, James Buchan’s “The Persian Bride” was titled “A Good Place to Die. The English title sets up more appropriate expectations ...

But as a visitor from another religion, I had the same giddy sense of discovery that I might have had if I’d slipped in undetected. The experience was new for me on two levels. I had neither been to a ...