Guest likes their food. anthony: mmm! maeimeh: this call it fesenjan. anthony: a stew of fried chicken, onion, ground walnuts, pomegranate, and tomato paste. anthony: and this fruit, there s some kind of fruit? maeimeh: yes. there is a dried apricot inside this as well. anthony: delicious! so good! bijan: needed around twenty-four hours time. anthony: these are very sophisticated, very time-consuming dishes to prepare. always from scratch, and always in excess of what you could possibly need. you tend to kill your guests with kindness around here. maeimeh: tilapia. that fish is from the south of iran. anthony: from the persian gulf? bijan: persian gulf. maeimeh: yes. and this one is from north. we call it mahi-ye halva. anthony: maybe if i could try some, uh yes, thank you. maeimeh: of course. and that one is gheimeh. we made it with beans, meat. anthony: so good. mmm. fantastic food. bijan: man and wife, both of them working.
[ laughter ] anthony: after 10 weeks, yeganeh was finally released. group: one, two, three. anthony: all right. thank you guys. man: thank you too. anthony: we ll see you. group: thank you, tony.
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bijan: man and wife, both of them working. you know? anthony: so it s hard to do something like this. bijan: yes. anthony: that s what i ve been waiting, that s the crispy rice at the bottom, right there? the, what s it called? tadek? is that maeimeh: tadek. anthony: tadek. maeimeh: exactly. anthony: oh, lovely. merci. maeimeh: my mom and my mother-in-law, they think if they have a guest, they have to, at least two or three kind of foods. anthony: right. maeimeh: and, uh, if they make just one they think that this is not very polite for the guest. but, uh, nowadays, for example, for my generation, when i have a guest, i will just make one food, one appetizer, and one dessert. bijan: you know why? maeimeh: and bijan: you know why? maeimeh: because it s much easier! [ laughter ] for barcelona? we did promise we d go. [dog] take that trip!
yeganeh: we have police, they arrest girls, or women, for having bad hijab or not being covered enough. but, it s not that we live with the police in our head, you know? anthony: you know, one of the first things that people will say, when you say, well, i m going to iran. oh you re - but don t they make women do this, this and this. jason: yeah. yeganeh: mmm. anthony: actually, not so much. jason: yeah. anthony: not as much as our jason: friends. anthony: friends. anthony: compare and contrast, women aren t allowed to drive in saudi arabia. yeganeh: that s right. or vote. anthony: uh, or vote. you can drive? you can vote? yeganeh: yeah, of course! anthony: can you open a business? yeganeh: of course. my sister is an accountant. she has her own company. girls are allowed to do almost everything, uh, except we want to go and watch football, which is, like anthony: can t go watch football? yeganeh: we cannot. anthony: woman s issues are often