Pomegranate Summers in Iran

Travel Blog  •  Eva Holland  •  10.06.08 | 12:00 PM ET

imageBrittany Shahmehri takes a compelling look back at her childhood summers in Iran and Texas. “I was only 3 when my American mother and Iranian father gathered our few possessions and booked a one-way flight to Texas,” she writes in the Christian Science Monitor. “But once there, we continued to eat Persian food, with steaming saffron rice and fenugreek-laced stews, and, when we could find it, pomegranate.”

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Tags: Middle East, Iran

Eva Holland is a contributor to the World Hum blog. She is also a contributing editor at Not Coming to a Theater Near You and writes about her favorite movie genre on her blog, Chick Flicks: The Good, The Bad, and The Fugly.


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