Roseheart makes readers hungry. The recipe section offers a few recipes for the kinds of food that appear in the novel.
Melinda’s chile-corn chowder
Naveed’s date-night gheimeh stew
Pomegranate soup
Potato chop
Mast o khiar (yogurt sauce)
Rose-saffron-pistachio ice cream
Persian jeweled stuffing for Thanksgiving (not mentioned in Roseheart).
Also, visit Najmieh Batmanglij’s kitchen for her recipes. Try the pistachio pomegranate meatballs.
Catherine Dehdashti 