Shadi HasanzadeNemati

Shadi HasanzadeNemati is the recipe developer, author and photographer behind the blog Unicorns in the Kitchen. For her, the magic of cooking is in bringing everyone together and sharing the experience of having delicious homemade food. She believes that a recipe is like a canvas and the person who makes it is the artist, bringing their own creativity to give it a personal twist. She has written several pieces for Food52 and other publications.

She grew up in her mother's kitchen, where she magically put a delicious meal together using a few ingredients and very easy steps. That's what she do with my recipes, too. She makes sure that everyone can make and enjoy her recipes.

She started her blog as a means of showing everyone how easy it is to put a meal together with everyday ingredients and to introduce delicious Persian/Iranian homemade food to her readers. She wanted to go beyond kebabs and dishes that one always finds in a Persian restaurant. Through Unicorns in the Kitchen, she shared her stories about her family and herself and how food has always been a very important part of their lives. Eventually her blog led to my first cookbook, "The Enchantingly Easy Persian Cookbook" which is a collection of Persian recipes that are so beloved to her.

You can read more about Shadi and her work on my website www.UnicornsintheKitchen.com