A Seattle Afternoon

Shadows of La Boqueria

Barcelona is hot and humid in July. Late afternoons, when the temperature is becoming a bit more bearable, the light starts dancing with all the shapes and old architecture. La Boqueria food market, full of tourists, becomes a place of paradoxes. We are all eager to see the culture, the history, the people, and much more, however, all of us are playing a small role to strip the place of all of those things. We all rush to a place to absorb all those fantasies in our minds not knowing that we are all participating in destroying what we all came for. In such situations a photographer needs to find the shadows to maybe hide parts of reality that we are facing today.

Gerdeh Bakery - گرده پزی

Gerdeh (نان گرده) is one of the traditional breads of Hamadan province which is located in western Iran near Zagros mountain range. In addition to the special dough used for this flat bread, egg  yolks and aromatic vegetables are used for making this bread taste and smell amazing. There are two types of Gerdeh based on how much egg yolks they use: single yolk Gerdeh (گرده یک زرده), and double yolk Gerdeh (گرده دو زرده) .

The bread is cooked in a tanoor (tandoor -تنور)  and then given to the customers hot right out of tanoor. I hope you can all enjoy Gerdeh someday since this is amazing, specially when eaten fresh out of the tanoor.

You can also check out my other post about making Gerdeh in a village in Zagros Mountains.