Six O'Clock Solution: Morgh ba Zardchoobeh is 'everyday turmeric chicken'

How to give a lift to simple, familiar foods could be the title of Bottom of the Pot: Persian Recipes and Stories, by Los Angeles food blogger Naz Deravian (Flatiron/Raincoast, $45).
The author left Iran at age 8, returns each summer to Vancouver where she grew up, but has never forgotten her heritage of lively, spiced food and happy times in the kitchen. Morgh ba Zardchoobeh or as she refers to it, “everyday turmeric chicken,” uses “the workhorse of our spice cabinet.” I