What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets


The Assistant Restaurant Manager
Mohammad Riahi: Yazd, Iran
Mohammad Riahi is a part-time assistant manager at a traditional Persian restaurant and the owner-driver of a minibus in the city of Yazd, Iran. Mohammad lives with his parents in the home in which he was raised but once married he and his bride will be offered the second floor of his parent's spacious desert city home.
From the coverage for the What I Eat project, but not included in the book.
Age: 30 • Height: 5' 7 1/2" • Weight: 163 pounds
ONE DAY’S FOOD in December
CALORIES  2800
BREAKFAST   Sangak (flat bread), 6.8 oz • Feta cheese 2.1 oz • Walnuts, 0.7 oz • Cucumber, 2.9 oz • Black tea, 4.4 fl oz; with sugar, 1 tsp

LUNCH   Shouli (herbed beet root soup with lentils and chickpeas), 1.4 lb • Doogh (salty yogurt drink) blended with mint, 10.2 fl oz

DINNER   Sangak, 4.7 oz • Feta cheese 0.7 oz • Sabzi khordan (fresh herb mix), 1.2 oz; yogurt with cucumber, 1.1 lb • Egg, 2.5 oz • Butter cookies, 0.5 oz • Baklava (honey-soaked phyllo pastry filled with chopped nuts), 1.1 oz • Lozi Badam (almond sweet), 1.1 oz • Lozi Nargi (coconut sweet), 1.1 oz • Black tea, 4.4 fl oz; with sugar 1 tsp

THROUGHOUT THE DAY  Orange, 8 oz • Persimmon, 3.1 oz • Mandarin orange, 5.5 oz • Filtered water, 8.4 fl oz

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