Persian hospitality and quick friendships are hard to avoid anywhere in Iran – especially when you’re in the country. On our weekend autumn getaway near Mashhad, we ate a lot of traditional food, we also visited the shrine of a local Shia saint who almost instantly answered my prayer!
You see the creation of food at a primal level, men relentlessly clawing the doe, molding and shaping it, and then facing the sometimes unbearable heat of the open oven–in order to feed themselves and the world around them. This is real; Wall Street speculation is not.