Najmieh Batmanglij

Najmieh Batmanglij
Born 1947 (age 68–69)
Website http://www.najmieh.com

Culinary career

Cooking style Persian

Najmieh Khalili Batmanglij (Persian: نجمیه خلیلی باتمانقلیج‎‎, IPA: [nædʒmiːˈje bɒːtmɒːŋɢeˈliːdʒ]) is an Iranian-American chef and award-winning cookbook author.

Biography

Batmanglij was born in Tehran but received her undergraduate and master's degrees in the United States.[1] She returned to Iran after her time in America but was soon forced into exile because of the Iranian Revolution.[1] She and her husband fled to Vence, France where she studied cooking and began translating her mother's recipes into French resulting in her first cookbook Ma Cuisine D'Iran.[2] In the 1980s Batmanglij permanently relocated to Washington, DC where she wrote her most celebrated book Food of Life,[1] after the success of that book she went on to write five more cookbooks including From Persia to Napa: Wine at the Persian Table, which won a Gourmand Cookbook Award.[3] and Silk Road Cooking: A Vegetarian Journey, which was compared by The New York Times to reading, "a good novel — once you start, it's hard to put down."[4] Batmanglij has appeared on The Martha Stewart Show and also teaches Persian cooking.[1] On February 15, 2013, in his weekly article for the Guardian newspaper, Yotam Ottolenghi included a recipe that was inspired by a recipe in Food of Life, about which he said, "One of the most exciting cookbooks I've seen in a while, Food Of Life: Ancient Persian And Modern Iranian Cooking And Ceremonies, by Najmieh Batmanglij – I highly recommend it to anyone with an interest in Iran's glorious food culture."[5] On 6 April 2016, she was the guest chef at First Lady Michelle Obama's White House Nowruz Celebration and Lunch.[6] She is a member of Les Dames d'Escoffier.[7]

Her sons are Rostam Batmanglij of the band Vampire Weekend, and Zal Batmanglij, director of the 2011 Sundance film Sound of My Voice.[8]

Cookbooks

Notes

  1. 1 2 3 4 Persian food guru updates master cookbook
  2. ↑ Ma cuisine d'iran: Amazon.fr: N. Batman: Livres
  3. ↑ Gourmand World Cookbook Awards (USA Only)-Cook's Books
  4. ↑ For Full- and Part-Time Vegetarians, New York Times
  5. ↑ http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/2013/feb/15/lamb-skewers-recipe-halva-cake
  6. ↑ "NewsRoomAmerica.com - Remarks by The First Lady at Annual Nowruz Celebration". www.newsroomamerica.com. Retrieved 2016-04-21.
  7. ↑ Les Dames d'Escoffier International (LDEI)
  8. ↑ Q&A: Zal Batmanglij and Brit Marling on Sci-fi Cult Tale, "SOUND OF MY VOICE"

External links

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