Celebrate Persian New Year with green recipes and spring cleaning
CNN
Reset your year with green dishes filled with fresh herbs and a clean home for the Persian New Year, also known as Nowruz.
This celebration of spring is filled with symbolism around rebirth and renewal, because spring is a time when life is coming back after a long, cold winter, said Yasmin Khan, the London-based human rights campaigner turned author of "The Saffron Tales: Recipes from the Persian Kitchen" and "Zaitoun: Recipes and Stories from the Palestinian Kitchen." These two cookbooks from Khan inspire and provide a window into the cultures and stories of people from the Middle East through food. Khan's latest work, "Ripe Figs: Recipes and Stories from the Eastern Mediterranean," will be published on May 4.The US began pulling military equipment and additional personnel out of Niger on Friday after waiting months for the ruling military junta to approve US military flights into the country, two sources familiar with the matter said Saturday, ahead of a September 15 withdrawal deadline agreed to by the two countries.
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