The Quest for Barbari Bread is Over--sorta

The Quest for Barbari Bread is Over--sorta
by Sargord Pirouz
07-Jan-2011
 

Well, it turns out Barbari bread is readily available in my neck of the woods. It comes from the Afghan bakery I'd seen on the internet. It's been available to local Persian stores for about three years now. (I'd given up by then after many years of trying.)

So upon hearing the bread would be delivered to the store the next day, I kept my expectations low. Next day, I picked it up, folded it and put it in my bike's luggage compartment (similar to the one in the pic above). At one of my destinations, with tea, I gave it a try.

It doesn't quite have the same appearance. It's definition isn't up to the one available in the old country, and it doesn't have the same color. The crust is softer, the bread chewier and the overall taste a little off. I'd qualify it as a semblance of the real thing. Sort of like how a German citizen feels when he comes to the US, orders a lager beer at the bar and gets a Budweiser--he must feel the same way I felt upon eating this "Barbari" bread.

Still, it did bring back memories and I'll be buying it again. It represents a simple pleasure--good bread, a nice ride, a good coffee or beer--the things that make a simple man like myself happy. But I can't help thinking how much better the Barbari bread is for my cousins back in the old country. A simple pleasure they get, to which we settle for mere semblance.

Balatarin
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The best barbary

by IranMilitaryForum.net on Sat Jan 08, 2011 09:24 AM PST

is from an armanian Iranian baker in north of Toronto called Garni. He has been baking that very same barbary bread since early 90's and in spite of numerous recent new bakers in Toronto nothing come close to the real barbary of Garni!

;-)

 

 

 


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Mehman

Don't know

by Mehman on Fri Jan 07, 2011 05:53 PM PST

how to sing in Youtube, DA used  a site for recording voices but I don't know how to.


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Sargord Pirouz

Mehman

by Sargord Pirouz on Fri Jan 07, 2011 05:33 PM PST

Haven't heard it. Sing it in a YouTube video for us, please.


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Mehman

Sargord

by Mehman on Fri Jan 07, 2011 05:27 PM PST

Have you heard this song:

"Barbari abi hayat, barbari jan beh fadat... Barbari, barbari, barbari, barbari...." 

 


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Sargord Pirouz

Well Simorgh...

by Sargord Pirouz on Fri Jan 07, 2011 04:00 PM PST

When in the US, you drink beer and light firecrackers on the 4th of July.

When in Iran, you eat Barbari bread and light bonfires on Chaharshanbe Suri.

There might be different takes but it's still the simple things wherever you find yourself. That's my advice.


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Sargord Pirouz

Bread and other things

by Sargord Pirouz on Fri Jan 07, 2011 03:56 PM PST

Faryarm, thanks for the tip. I might give them a call.

DA, I saw that band play live on stage at the H-D 90th Reunion in Milwaukee. 


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Simorgh5555

Sargord likes his beer

by Simorgh5555 on Fri Jan 07, 2011 03:51 PM PST

Shame it isn't on sale in the Islamic Republic unless you buy it on the black market. There are other fat fifty year old men in Iran  who also want to enjoy the simple things in life like eating barbari bread and a nice can of Budweiser in the same way you do.....if only alcohol was Iran (unless you are an Armenian). 

 


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Dirty Angel

YO, Sargord

by Dirty Angel on Fri Jan 07, 2011 02:47 PM PST

What's up with you and the barbarians going saring and garding on a tushy cow bike?

Are you an IAASHAH?

 

"Stuff happens and some, one way or another, get stuffed"


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faryarm

Best Barbari in US...

by faryarm on Fri Jan 07, 2011 02:41 PM PST

Dear Sargord,

I came across an Armenian Baker called Ararat in NY. Their Barbari is by far the most authentic, I am told due to the NY water , which produces the exact look, feel and taste of Barbari as one exoects.

I once asked John the Baker to next day Fedex some to friends...

Regards

Faryarm 


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