Presented by Chef Louisa Shafia

Join us for a traditional Persian tea time to celebrate Shahpour Pouyan: Winter in Paradise. Learn about the history and customs of tea drinking in Iran, one of the world’s most passionate tea-consuming cultures, with Chef Louisa Shafia, author of the cookbook The New Persian Kitchen and renowned authority on Persian food.

Menu

Savory

  • Sabzi khordan, fresh herb and feta cheese plate with handmade Persian barbari flatbread, cucumbers, tomatoes, walnuts, herbs, olives, and radishes
  • Salad olivieh, Persian chicken salad with potatoes, peas, carrots, and pickles

Sweet

  • Faludeh Shirazi, watermelon sorbet with sour cherry syrup
  • Dried lime pound cake with saffron glaze and whipped cream 
  • Nan-e nokhodchi, chickpea flour cookie with cardamom

Tea Service featuring Louisa’s hand-blended Persian teas with dried flowers and spices as well as cardamom coffee


About Louisa Shafia 

Louisa Shafia is the author of The New Persian Kitchen, winner of Food52’s Piglet award. She has spoken about Persian food at Harvard, Google, and New York’s Museum of Food and Drink. Her writing and recipes have been featured in BBC Travel, The New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, the New Yorker, Food & Wine, and on National Public Radio. Louisa cooks Persian guest chef dinners at restaurants around the country, including Maydan in Washington, DC, Zahav in Philadelphia, and Kismet in LA. Currently a resident of Nashville, she serves as Culinary Liaison for the Tennessee Immigrant and Refugee Rights Coalition, both cooking for and organizing events that feature chefs from Nashville’s diverse immigrant community.  

Louisa Shafia

Louisa sells handmade Persian culinary goods at her online store, Feast By Louisa. Her Persian spiced chocolate bars were praised in the Wall Street Journal as being “loaded with luxurious saffron, cardamom, edible gold leaf and other glimmers of Louisa Shafia’s Persian heritage.” Both her pomegranate aprons and fabric rice bonnets––damkoni in Farsi––for cooking Iranian rice, are sewn by graduates of the Nashville nonprofit Sew For Hope, whose mission is to provide refugee women with sewing skills as a path to financial independence.




Related exhibition

Shahpour Pouyan: Winter in Paradise

May 30–Aug 25, 2024 | Gordon Contemporary Artists Project Gallery

In works of art astonishing for their beauty, sophistication, and virtuosity, Shahpour Pouyan critiques political power and expresses a poetic melancholy about the human condition. Born in Isfahan, Iran, in 1979, he now divides his time between Tehran and London, and his work is in the permanent collections of the British… Read More

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