Najmieh Batmanglij
Najmieh Batmanglij | |
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Born | 1947 (age 77–78) |
Website | http://www.najmieh.com |
Culinary career | |
Cooking style | Persian |
Najmieh Khalili Batmanglij (Persian: نجمیه خلیلی باتمانقلیج, IPA: [nædʒmiːˈje bɒːtmɒːŋɢeˈliːdʒ]) is an Iranian-American chef and award-winning cookbook author.
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Biography
Batmanglij was born in Tehran but received her undergraduate and master's degrees in the United States.[1] She returned to Iran after her time in America but was soon forced into exile because of the Iranian Revolution.[1] She and her husband fled to Vence, France where she studied cooking and began translating her mother's recipes into French resulting in her first cookbook Ma Cuisine D'Iran.[2] In the 1980s Batmanglij permanently relocated to Washington, DC where she wrote her most celebrated book Food of Life,[1] after the success of that book she went on to write five more cookbooks including From Persia to Napa: Wine at the Persian Table, which won a Gourmand Cookbook Award.[3] and Silk Road Cooking: A Vegetarian Journey, which was compared by The New York Times to reading, "a good novel — once you start, it's hard to put down."[4] Batmanglij has appeared on The Martha Stewart Show and also teaches Persian cooking.[1] On February 15, 2013, in his weekly article for the Guardian newspaper, Yotam Ottolenghi included a recipe that was inspired by a recipe in Food of Life, about which he said, "One of the most exciting cookbooks I've seen in a while, Food Of Life: Ancient Persian And Modern Iranian Cooking And Ceremonies, by Najmieh Batmanglij – I highly recommend it to anyone with an interest in Iran's glorious food culture."[5] She is a member of Les Dames d'Escoffier.[6]
Her sons are Rostam Batmanglij of the band Vampire Weekend, and Zal Batmanglij, director of the 2011 Sundance film Sound of My Voice.[7]
Cookbooks
- Ma Cuisine d'Iran (Grancher, Paris, 1984)
- Food of Life (2010) and New Food of Life: Ancient Persian and Modern Iranian Cooking and Ceremonies (Mage, 1986 ISBN 9780934211277 and 1992-2009 )
- Persian Cooking for a Healthy Kitchen (Mage, 1994, 2006) ISBN 9781933823263
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- Silk Road Cooking: A Vegetarian Journey ISBN 9780934211635 (Mage, 2002, 2004).
- From Persia to Napa: Wine at the Persian Table Mage Publishers, 2006, ISBN 9781933823003
- Happy Nowruz: Cooking with Children to Celebrate the Persian New Year (Mage, 2008)]
Notes
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External links
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- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 Persian food guru updates master cookbook
- ↑ Ma cuisine d'iran: Amazon.fr: N. Batman: Livres
- ↑ Gourmand World Cookbook Awards (USA Only)-Cook's Books
- ↑ For Full- and Part-Time Vegetarians, New York Times
- ↑ http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/2013/feb/15/lamb-skewers-recipe-halva-cake
- ↑ Les Dames d'Escoffier International (LDEI)
- ↑ Q&A: Zal Batmanglij and Brit Marling on Sci-fi Cult Tale, "SOUND OF MY VOICE"
- Pages with reference errors
- Articles with hCards
- Articles containing Persian-language text
- Official website not in Wikidata
- 1947 births
- Living people
- American chefs
- American food writers
- Iranian chefs
- Iranian emigrants to the United States
- Iranian writers
- Iranian women writers
- American cookbook writers
- American women writers
- Women cookbook writers