A Persian Celebration
by Celia Sin-Tien Cheng
April 26, 2010
American Museum of Natural History
Linder Theater
Central Park West @ 79th Street (Enter on 77th St)
New York, NY 10024
May 19, 2010, 6:30pm
Tickets: $20 (including tasting with Persian tea)
I love Persian cuisine, so I’m looking forward to learning more about the Silk Road’s influence on Persian cuisine and culture when Adventures in the Global Kitchen features A Persian Celebration.
Persian cuisine is among dozens enriched by the ideas, customs, and ingredients traded along the ancient Silk Road. Teacher and cookbook author Najmieh Batmanglij will lead guests on a delicious journey along the legendary trading route where dough traveled east and west between China and Italy. Guests will also watch a clip on making rose water and taste how these ingredients and others create the popular Persian baklava.
This program is part of a series of tastings and lectures for adults and educational programming for children offered at the American Museum of Natural History in conjunction with the exhibition Traveling the Silk Road: Ancient Pathway to the Modern World on view through August 15.
