When I told friends that I was going on holiday to Iran, those who had already been said I’d be tired of the food within a few days, and warned that I should pack plenty of instant noodles as an alternative to eating kebabs for breakfast, lunch and dinner.Reading The Saffron Tales (2016) made me wonder if they had visited the same country I was going to. In the introduction to the book, British-Iranian writer Yasmin Khan admits that the country her mother is from isn’t always understood by…
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