Interview at Marjan Fine Persian Grill
This past Tuesday, we went to Marjan Fine Persian Grill to fully immerse ourselves in the culture of Persian food. While we were there, we had the opportunity to talk to the owner and ask him a few questions. Q: What do you think is unique about Persian cuisine? Persian cuisine, what’s unique about it? In that region, the whole region at one point had the same type of food. We have one of the most oldest dish. What you had tonight? The Fesenjoon? I’ve been told my a lot of group of people who belong to a women’s reading club, a book club in East Hanover. One day they call me up, they say we have this one dish, so they made a reservation they came in. They read this book about the Great Cyrus, and he was the maker of that dish in Persia. So that’s how old this dish was. Now, the way they do cooking in Persia is slow cooking. Work, work, work, work, work. All the days, they get up at six o clock and really right after breakfast they have to have lunch. And really in that region,