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The eggplant is one of the great culinary obsessions of our time. There are many ways to love it: breaded and fried and smothered with marinara and mozzarella; cooked to a sweet, spicy, glorious smoosh in a Cantonese stew; dry-fried with Sichuan peppercorns and mounds of chilis. But right now the eggplant that tugs at our hearts most violently is the kashke bademjan at...
Tehrangeles is an extensive commercial strip, two miles of kebab shops, semiformal restaurants and cafés. Yet what keeps drawing me back to Westwood is a modest Iranian sandwich shop. An Attari sandwich is close to a perfect thing: a length of toasted French bread, a layer of main ingredient and a dressing that includes fresh tomatoes, a handful of shredded lettuce and a smattering of...
Even the quickest glance into Flame, the slick Iranian restaurant on the Tehrangeles stretch of Westwood Boulevard, reveals the shiny clay sphere at its heart, a giant tiled eyeball, its pupil shooting fire, constantly tended by men who prod the blaze with long metal rods and wipe its gleaming surfaces clean. Every so often a chef will feed a bit of dough into the center of the...
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