SC - Persion cooking

[Tara Sersen]

>I didn't think it was, unless perhaps you're comparing it to something
>Southern Indian and chili-laced. In general, my own experience has been
>that Persian cooking tends to resemble more the cooking of Northern
>India and Afghanistan. It's richer and less... um... loud... but not
>especially bland or even unspicy. I think it's just the choice of
>spices, more aromatics, less heat. 

It's not bland, and it is rich.  I thought I'd had northern Indian food - that's
what a friend told me her mother cooked.  But, it wasn't very different from
the southern Indian food in terms of spicing.  That is what I was comparing
it to.  I guess I have another cuisine to seek out now - Northern Indian!


- -Magdalena vB