Original title: Dastour-e Ashpazi
Type: Docu-Fiction
                 
Crew:
Written and Directed by: Mohammad Shirvani
Director of Photography: Houman Behmanesh
Editing: Mohammad Shirvani & Esmaeil Monsef
Sound Recorder: Farshid Faraji
Sound Mixer: Hossein Abolsedgh
Set Designer: Mohammad Shirvani
Producers: Mohammad Shirvani & DEFC
Company: Documentary and Experimental Film Center (DEFC)
Year: 2010
Running Time: 72 min
Original version: Persian

Festival debut:
* Berlinale , International Film Festival, 2010.  » Culinary Cinema » section.

Synopsis:
Cooking various dishes, seven housewives help the filmmaker resolve a problem. What is cooking? Labour or love, or labour of love?

Director’s statement:
I must admit that ‘Iranian Cookbook’ is an appreciation of Iranian women. I did not intend to make a feministic movie but I think it was necessary to concentrate on cooking and its related issues at least once. The kitchen is a place my mother spent over 30 years in and I never really noticed its details.