Yay, got myself organized enough to participate in another round of Novel Food!
There's a lot of talk in the library world about multicultural books written by multicultural authors, and the book I have for you this time fits into that category perfectly. The Wrath and the Dawn takes place in Persia and is written by an Asian-American female.
Essentially a retelling of A Thousand and One Nights, this story features Shahrzad as our heroine, who is determined to rid the land of the evil caliph (who murders his wives, though no one knows why), thus she agrees to become his wife. Her caveat is that he can't kill her until she's done telling her story, which she manages to drag out night after night. Unfortunately for her plan, Shahrzad finds herself falling in love with Khalid and prolongs her story to have more time with him.
After visiting Renée's website and reading her about page, I'm not surprised to find food throughout her book.
4.) If you could have a room full of any one thing, what would it be?The most delicious food from all over the world. Seriously. I travel to eat. One of these days, it’s going to catch up with me, and I’ll be as big as a house. It may seem shortsighted to you, but I swear, I would be much happier than the jackass with a roomful of gold.
It was really hard to pick something, as they really are eating a lot of fabulous-sounding food, like a royal feast on page 251, a tea on page 43, food eaten at night during the storytelling on pages 30 and 222 or a dinner served on page 115. One thing that was mentioned more than once, though, was lavash, so I decided to look that one up and give it a whirl. The recipe is linked below.
This probably didn't rise as much as it should have, but I was pressed for time: winter light is short and the toddler was gone for only part of the day.
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| Only the first one was a perfect circle with gorgeous puffs. |
My notes: Rolling this as thin as possible is key! Mine definitely turned out more like naan or roti (though still extremely delish) as I didn't push the edges enough. The size of your dough ball before you roll depends on how big you want your lavash--mine fit in the palm of my hand easily.
I ate a couple spread with honey and a bit of sea salt.
Book recommendation: The Wrath and the Dawn by Renée Ahdieh
Recipe recommendation: Lavash
TV recommendation: Quantico (though please note: I don't recommend all the sex included in this show)
2 comments:
I love lavash! It's such a comforting thing to eat. As usual, you chose an interesting book. I can wait to read what your toddler's reading preferences will be. I can see that right now every much into exploration mode. Thank you so much for contributing to Novel Food!
Your lavash looks wonderful--perfect for dipping and spreading. ;-) It does sound like an interesting book too--I like reworkings of classic stories.
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