StoryNo.4:
Mīrzā Qāsemī is one of the very delicious “šomālī” food originating from Gīlān, a region in northern part of Iran. “Šomālī” means anything related
to north Iranian regions. No šomālī recipe will be completed without “Merqāne" (means eggs in Gīlakī dialect), garlic, and partly eggplant and Mīrzā Qāsemī has all these vital šomalī
ingredients in itself. So I will call it the perfect example of šomālī kitchen.
This time I read you the story which Roham wrote me about him and his complications with eggplants and specially Mīrzā Qāsemī:
"I
was living with my family in my grand parents huge house in downtown Tehran. Every other month or sometimes once a month we used to have Mirzā Qāsemī. I remember my mom telling me
so:
"When
eggplants were in Bāzār, I remember Agha joon (her father) used to buy a huge bunch of eggplants every week and it was such an exciting ritual for all of us to sit together, grilling and then
freezing them for the time they were not available in market anymore."
I
am his grandson but strangely I didn’t like eggplants and of course couldn’t stand Mīrzā Qāsemī as well. I used to have noon o pair (bread and cheese) each time we had it.