Why Do We Eat Together In Iranian Families

Have you ever noticed that taking the time to eat together with your family creates a stronger bond? In Iranian families, meal times and time spent around the table are important in creating a strong family connection. Eating together is very important to Iranian families because they want to have good and strong relationships as a family. Having a strong relationship with your family is not just important for them it is also very important to the non-Iranian families. At the table, food can help that process and it can do that by the food you eat. What are some Iranian foods that they eat to make a strong connection? Iranian food is great because of the culture, but how can food, in general, bring people together? Eating at the table with
your family is great but when using the proper etiquette but it’s even better in the Iranian culture because their table etiquette helps create a strong bond.

You may be wondering what a typical meal is for Iranian families. One typical Iranian meals are Fesenjan. Fesenjan is a very iconic stew to the Iranian culture because of its history behind it. Fesenjan is an Iranian stew which is believed to have originated in the province of Gilan bordering the Caspian Sea. The area was particularly renowned for its wild duck population and the Fesenjan recipe used to be made with duck meat initially, which was substituted with chicken later on. The dish is much favored during the fall season in Persia when the pomegranates matured. Fesenjan was also considered to be a Persian Rosh Hosanna dish. Other staple foods in Iranian culture are Kebabs. They may not have all the history behind them. “They are one of the favorite meals” stated my friend Kaybod. Another popular dish is Bademjan. This meal is an eggplant and tomato stew. All the dishes are some staples of Iranian culture, but there are certainly more of them that can make Iranians happy. Well, they are some of the best dishes my Iranian friend Kaybod picked out of the list of the best Iranian meals according to the Food Republic on the top 10 Iranian meals. Those dishes are just some of the great Iranian meals but how can they bring a family or culture together?

Iranian food is an excellent option for dinner with your friends or family because it is such a vibrant cuisine it great for creating a strong bond between the people you love.
There is a great option for food but in Iranian culture how can food bring people together? Eating together is excellent to create a strong bond and one way is by cooking together. Cooking can help that by cooking with your family or with friends and that can bring us together. Also, we are able to share our culture and heritage through food and give each other nourishment will cooking. Coming together and sharing a meal is the most communal and binding thing in the Iranian culture. We all have to eat, and being able to learn how to make a recipe from your mother is one of the oldest traditions of mankind. It feels really good to learn and hone a technique from your parents and pass it down to your kids. This idea of carrying on the legacy and sharing recipes that have been in our family for generations is something that is so incredibly special because of what I can do for your family. Well, being able to make a dish and share it with the people you love is one of the universal concepts because it’s at the root of our survival. Eating together is great and in the Iranian culture how can there table etiquette help create a strong
bond?

In Iranian culture they have a typical table etiquette that can help create communication at the table, but how can it help? In the Iranian culture, it overlaps a lot because staying and talking at the table is very important to the Iranians. Etiquette can range far but if you focus on bonding at the table you will see why they have a strong family. When eating together in Iranian household you eat family style. What that means is that it’s a sit-down meal where food is placed in the middle of the table in large serving dishes from which dinner is served by themselves. What that does is not much but it is a good start because it starts a little conversation like please pass the Kebabs if you are eating in Iranian meal? Eating food in an Iranian houses make you stay because you should always have 2 to 3 servings of food. What that does is it makes you stay at the table longer than that leads to more bonding and communication in the family which helps to make a stronger family. Iranian families shower the guest when they come over so that can make a happier guest. What that can do is make stronger relationships with friends and you don’t just need a good connection with your family you also need friends.

Food can be a very powerful tool if used in the right way so just by following the Iranian way is a great start. Making a simple meal is a start but making in Iranian meal could be even better for the people interested in this type of cuisine. Introducing the cuisine could creating something even better because it makes a new conversation. Conversation is good but it can start even sooner by cooking together. Cooking is a great tool because you are beside the person for so long you are just meant to talk to them. After the meal is ready it keeps on going in the Iranian culture because of the table etiquette. When thinking about this just remember that food for them comes from their relatives, whether they have wings or fins or roots. That is how they consider food, and for them, that is a culture and it has a lot of history. So their culture has a story but it also has a relationship.