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Firoozeh Dumas’ essay, “Sweet Sour, and Resentful,” was submitted as a magazine article in Gourmet Magazine. The demographic of this magazine is likely an array of amateur and professional chefs, food critics, or even the average person who enjoys cooking for their families. Through careful analyzation of the audience, it is reasonable to conclude that they will be unfamiliar with the background of the Persian meal Duma’s mother is cooking. Duma grants readers the ability to see the correlation between preparing a Persian meal and her heritage by giving a brief cultural lesson at the beginning of the essay on life in her home country, Abadan, Iran. Continuing to recognize her reader’s probable unfamiliarity with things such as dishes her mother
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