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How a jar of jam became my passport to Iran

May 13th, 2018  |  by  |  published in Uncategorized, What we savor | Leave A Comment »

The author and her grandmother, taken at the family country home in Karaj, Iran. Photo: Roya Dehghani.

Grandma’s jam has just two ingredients: fruit and sugar, not unlike a jar of farmer’s market preserves. But that is where the similarities end.