In Episode #41, co-hosts Beata and Bita shed light on a very Persian custom of cracking open, shelling, and eating pumpkin seeds. In Farsi, seeds are called “tokhmeh”.
This episode is part of the summer “Micro” series of the Modern Persian Food podcast.
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