The cuisine of Iran is diverse, with each province featuring dishes, as well as culinary traditions and styles, distinct to their regions. It includes a wide variety of foods ranging from chelow kabab (barg, koobideh, joojeh, shishleek, soltani, chenjeh), khoresht (stew that is served with white Basmati or Iranian rice: ghormeh sabzi, gheimeh, and others), aash (a thick soup), kookoo (vegetable omellettes), pollo (white rice alone or with addition of meat and/or vegetables and herbs, including loobia pollo, albaloo pollo, zereshk pollo, and others), and a diverse variety of salads, pastries, and drinks specific to different parts of Iran. The list of Persian recipes, appetizers and desserts is extensive.Herbs are frequently used along with fruits such as plums, pomegranates, quince, prunes, apricots, and raisins. The main Persian cuisines are combinations of rice with meat, chicken or fish and some onion, vegetables, nuts, and herbs. To achieve a balanced taste, characteristic Persian spices such as saffron, diced limes, cinnamon, and parsley are mixed delicately and used in some special dishes.

Usually we are "Seeing Green" but if you will indulge us we want to share a refreshing culinary experience we had at a restaurant we ate at recently in the outskirts of Portland, Oregon. We knew they served "Mediterranean" food, but were we delighted to experience the variety, the quality, the authenticity. It was almost as good as being in the....

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and the Islamic regime that runs Iran are also going to be the ruination OF Iran…I don’t know if any of you have ever been to Iran but let me tell you, it is a beautiful nation, the people were friendly, the food was great, the women were beautiful, Persian women have that tendency, a dark and lovely people that are...(more)

378 people had claimed they experienced salmonella illnesses after eating food purchased from the Pars Cove Persian Cuisine booth at Taste of Chicago.

The plaintiff has gone from someone who under his about me section wrote "I like to take simple problems and find the most difficult way to do them", to "i’m a simple man. i like school and soccer. throw in some persian poetry and politics and i’m golden. did i mention that i love delicious food." in lieu of the lawsuit that he has filed.