glorious food culture." On April 6, 2016, she was the guest chef at First Lady Michelle Obama's White House Nowruz Celebration and Lunch. Julia Moskin of The New York Times wrote about her latest cookbook, "...Magisterial...An engrossing visual feast of modern Iran...Cooking in Iran is an essential new book" and selected it as one of The 19 Best Cookbooks of Fall 2018. Publishers Weekly called the cookbook, "A massive and thorough guide to Persian cuisine...terrific, reverential, and accessible." On November 5, 2018 The Washington Post published an article about her written by James Beard Award winning writer Mayukh Sen with the headline " Najmieh Batmanglij is the grande dame of Iranian cooking. It’s time you knew her name." On November 16, 2021 Taste Makers: Seven Immigrant Women Who Revolutionized Food in America by Mayukh Sen was published by W.W. Norton and Co. One of the featured immigrant women was Najmieh Batmanglij; on the same day, Hetty McKinnon wrote a review for The New York Times with the headline "Seven Immigrant Women Who Changed the Way Americans Eat." Personal life She is married to book publisher, Mohammad Batmanglij. Her sons are Zal Batmanglij, a film director and screenwriter whose projects include Sound of My Voice, The East, and The OA; and Rostam Batmanglij, a record producer, musician, singer, songwriter and composer who was a founding member of the indie-pop band Vampire Weekend. Bibliography References External links 1947 births Living people American chefs American food writers Iranian chefs Iranian emigrants to the United States Iranian writers Iranian women writers American cookbook writers Women cookbook writers American women non-fiction writers 21st-century American women Iranian cookbook writers