Firoozeh Dumas

“...The more modest and impractical the kitchen, the more likely one will be invited to stay for a meal. Show me a fancy house with a top-of-the-line gourmet kitchen, and I'll show you a family that eats out a lot.”
― Firoozeh Dumas, Funny in Farsi: A Memoir of Growing Up Iranian in America

“Ever since we had arrived in the United States, my classmates kept asking me about magic carpets.
- They don't exist-I always said. I was wrong. Magic carpets do exist. But they are called library cards.”
― Firoozeh Dumas, Laughing Without an Accent: Adventures of an Iranian American, at Home and Abroad