Sugar in the Milk: A Parsi Kitchen Story
From: The Kitchen Sisters
Series: Hidden Kitchens
Length: 08:56
The Parsi culture is some 3000 years old and goes back from Indian to Persia. UNESCO's PARZOR (Parsi Zorastrian) Project, estimates there are now some 75,000 Parsis in the world. The prediction is that by 2020 the numbers will have dropped to 25,000. For over a decade Niloufer Ichaporia King and the chefs of Alice Waters' legendary restaurant, Chez Panisse, collaborate on a ritual feast together on the first day of Spring to celebrate this vanishing culture and to share this usually private cooking with the public.
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The Parsi culture is some 3000 years old and goes back from Indian to Persia. UNESCO's PARZOR (Parsi Zorastrian) Project, estimates there are now some 75,000 Parsis in the world. The prediction is that by 2020 the numbers will have dropped to 25,000. For over a decade Niloufer Ichaporia King and the chefs of Alice Waters' legendary restaurant, Chez Panisse, collaborate on a ritual feast together on the first day of Spring to celebrate this vanishing culture and to share this usually private cooking with the public.
Timing and Cues
2:25 of music at tail end.
Intro and Outro
INTRO:Hidden Kitchens stretches back some 3,000 years, from San Francisco, to India, to Persia. On the eve of Parsi New Year, The Kitchen Sisters, Davia Nelson and Nikki Silva, bring us into the ancient and disappearing world of Parsi cooking in this story
called, "Sugar in the Milk."
Hidden Kitchens is produced by The Kitchen Sisters, Davia Nelson and Nikki Silva. Mixed by Jim McKee.
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Posted on December 30, 2010 at 07:25 PM | Permalink
Parsi cooking or Persian cooking?
Is not the real Parsi cooking still in Iran being prepared by millions of Persians every day? Or do you mean Parsi/Indian cuisine? Millions of Persians celebrate New Years with traditions and meals that go back to pre Islamic times. Perhaps the Zorastrian/Parsi expats are dwindling in numbers, but certainly not the culture and food of the Persian people. Persians are proud of their pre Islamic culture and cuisine, and they are protective of it.
Don't get me wrong though, I did enjoy the story, Zorastrians I am curious about and there is not a lot of info out there about them. I wonder how much they have in common with their brothers and sisters in Iran. Who is really more like the Persians of old, the ones that changed their religion or the ones that left their country many centuries ago? Observing and knowing immigrants here in the U.S., it seems almost impossible for even second generation offspring to not be heavily influenced by our culture and way of life...