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Najmieh Batmanglij (Najmieh Khalili) was born on 1947 in Tehran, Imperial Iran, is an Iranian-American chef. Discover Najmieh Batmanglij's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is she in this year and how she spends money? Also learn how she earned most of networth at the age of 77 years old?
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Najmieh Khalili |
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chef, cookbook author, publisher |
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77 years old |
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1947, 1947 |
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1947 |
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Tehran, Imperial Iran |
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Iran
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Najmieh Batmanglij Height, Weight & Measurements
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She is currently single. She is not dating anyone. We don't have much information about She's past relationship and any previous engaged. According to our Database, She has no children.
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Zal Batmanglij
Rostam Batmanglij |
Najmieh Batmanglij Net Worth
Her net worth has been growing significantly in 2023-2024. So, how much is Najmieh Batmanglij worth at the age of 77 years old? Najmieh Batmanglij’s income source is mostly from being a successful chef. She is from Iran. We have estimated Najmieh Batmanglij's net worth, money, salary, income, and assets.
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$1 Million - $5 Million |
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Najmieh Khalili Batmanglij is an Iranian-American chef and cookbook author.
Najmieh Khalili was born in 1947 in Tehran, Imperial Iran (present-day Iran).
She received her undergraduate and master's degrees in education in the United States.
Born in Tehran, she fled the Iranian Revolution in 1979, moving first to France, then the United States, building a career as a cookbook author as she went.
She returned to Iran after her education in America but was forced into exile in 1979, because of the Iranian Revolution.
She and her husband fled to Vence, France as refugees, where she studied cooking and began translating her mother's recipes into French resulting in her first cookbook, Ma Cuisine d'Iran.
In the 1980s Batmanglij permanently relocated to Washington, DC where she wrote her celebrated book, Food of Life.
After her move to the United States, which was near the time of the Iran hostage crisis and she faced discrimination, as a result she needed to publish her own work.
Alongside her husband Mohammad, they started their own publishing house.
After the success of that book, Batmanglij went on to write five more cookbooks, including From Persia to Napa: Wine at the Persian Table, which won a Gourmand Cookbook Award.
and Silk Road Cooking: A Vegetarian Journey, which The New York Times compared to reading "a good novel—once you start, it's hard to put down."
Batmanglij has appeared on The Martha Stewart Show and also teaches Persian cooking.
She is a member of Les Dames d'Escoffier, a society of professional women involved in the food, wine, and hospitality industries.
For many years she has taught at the Culinary Institute of America at Greystone in Napa Valley, California during the World of Flavors Conference.
Her first book, published in French, was called Ma Cuisine d’Iran (1984), followed by eight cookbooks in English, from Food of Life (1986) to Cooking in Iran (2018).
On February 15, 2013, in his weekly article for the Guardian newspaper, Yotam Ottolenghi included a recipe that was inspired by a recipe in Food of Life, about which he said: "One of the most exciting cookbooks I've seen in a while, Food Of Life: Ancient Persian And Modern Iranian Cooking And Ceremonies, by Najmieh Batmanglij–I highly recommend it to anyone with an interest in Iran's glorious food culture."
On April 6, 2016, she was the guest chef at First Lady Michelle Obama's White House Nowruz Celebration and Lunch.
The Washington Post hailed her in 2018 as "the grande dame of Iranian Cooking."
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."
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.