Najmieh Batmanglij

Najmieh Khalili Batmanglij (, ) is an Iranian-American chef and cookbook author. Born in Tehran, she fled the Iranian Revolution in 1979, moving first to France, then the United States, building a career as a cookbook author as she went. Her first book, published in French, was called ''Ma Cuisine d’Iran'' (1984), followed by eight cookbooks in English, from ''Food of Life'' (1986) to ''Cooking in Iran'' (2018). ''The Washington Post'' hailed her in 2018 as "the grande dame of Iranian Cooking." Provided by Wikipedia