On Shab-e Yalda, red fruit and fortune-telling rule the night.
The Shab-e Yalda celebration begins after dinner, and can last until dawn. There is music, dancing, and Iran’s beloved literary art form, poetry. The decor is all red and fire. To get a feeling for how modern-day Iranians celebrate, just search theand you’ll get an eyeful of scarlet-clad people posing in candlelit tableaux, watermelon-painted fingernails, and small children holding pomegranates.
At Yalda, fruit has a special status as the embodiment of summer, conjuring the juicy flavors of hot days. Traditionally, the host lays a table, called ain Farsi, with a platter of pink slices of watermelon, the essential Iranian summer fruit. Another cousin, Shirin, who lives in Orange County, California, explained how as a kid growing up in Iran, it was fun to go to the bazaar and hunt for watermelon. “Here in California we always have summer food, but in Iran, food is truly seasonal.
Pomegranates, the most iconic and beloved fruit in Iran, also have a place on the Yalda table. I like to makefor Yalda because it’s so festive. With its green coat of crushed pistachios and splash of ruby seeds, it looks like the enchanted food you might find in a fairy tale, which is fitting for a magical night like Yalda. Pomegranates and pistachios are two of Iran’s most storied foods, going back thousands of years.
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