To see photos of Iranian food and Kabooky Fried Chicken, go to my blog.
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What do they eat in Tehran? Fast food! It's true. I'm here in Iran and only have brief access to a computer so I'm typing as fast as I can but they do eat a lot of fast food here. Tehran is a very westernized city except that us ladies all have to wear headscarves. Pizza and burgers are popular here.
In the countryside, the food is probably more ethnic, lots of lamb kebabs and yogurt. But here in Tehran, you would be surprised. KFC is now "Kabooky Fried Chicken" but even despite the sanctions, Coca-Cola is ever-present.
People need to get over their concepts of Tehran as being just short of the caves of Tora Bora. It is an entirely westernized city that, just like America, runs on fast food!
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Fast food and coca-cola should not be confused with Iranian gourmet haute cuisine. Iranian cuisine is always home -made by talented housewives. You will never find traces of it in an Iranian restaurant anywhere in the world. You wish to taste Iranian gourmet home-made haute cuisine ? Easy! Just ask anyone you encounter anywhere in Iran to take you to their homes so as you may see the households from within. They will be honored and very proud to make you have a taste of not only delicious dishes but Persian hospitality in general. The memeory of it will brighten up your life for ever.
Have fun
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ramsheyi (0 articles, 0 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 523 comments)
on Tuesday, October 14, 2008 at 6:53:04 AM
doesn't make it any less "junk." I get the feeling that this writer experiences a little democraticization kind of joy in the vulgar diaspora of American Junk Food Culture or that somehow this is cleverly cute or cutely clever, and so I say to all, WATCH MORGAN SPURLOCK'S FILM (AGAIN); SUPERSIZE ME!JUNK FOOD IS DEADLY, WHETHER IN TEHRAN OR IN TEXAS.....
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Eliot Gould (12 articles, 0 quicklinks, 21 diaries, 134 comments)
on Tuesday, October 14, 2008 at 10:39:10 PM
We are now in Yazd, a more traditional community. Lovely. No fast food that I can see and really nice people. I'm staying here: http://yazdlalehhotel.com/
Thanks for the infoon home cooking, Iranian style.
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Jane Stillwater (455 articles, 0 quicklinks, 9 diaries, 62 comments)
on Tuesday, October 14, 2008 at 10:50:32 PM
The humble peasant's food in the mountains of Tora Bora might not be as exotic as the food in Bora Bora, but it damn sure beats the Junk food from McDonalds, all of the Diet sodas with the Diketopiperazine firing up those brain tumors, the mixture of the industrial solvent, phosphoric acid, used to prime raw steel when painting cars, for example, also called COCA COLA.
Not too far from Tehran is Gilgit and Hunza in Pakistan, where the diet is so healthy that people routinely live to be 100 and women still have children at 65! And Art Linkletter back in the 60's sent a Nebraskan or Kansas optometrist, as I recall, to write a book about it, I think called HUNZA, and you can't get any less Unamerican than Art Linkletter.
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Stephen Fox (79 articles, 2 quicklinks, 10 diaries, 443 comments)
on Tuesday, October 14, 2008 at 10:48:23 PM
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