Field notes & recipes
Field notes from a saffron house: how to tell real saffron from dyed, what Super Negin actually means, the Afghan tea ritual, and the dishes worth spending threads on — qabuli pulao, sholeh zard, sheer yakh. Start with the saffron ritual, check our lab results, or go straight to the crystal collection.
A saffron lab report has three numbers: crocin (colour), picrocrocin (taste) and safranal (aroma). Good saffron measures roughly 250–280 crocin, 95–110 picrocrocin, and 30–40...
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Everything in the journal comes back to the same bottles: single-origin Herati Super Negin, single-origin and harvest-dated.
For giving
One gram of Super Negin in a crystal keepsake bottle. About 60 cups of tea.
For the ritual
The bottle plus the porcelain teacup and saucer — everything the golden cup requires.
For the kitchen
For the kitchen that cooks with saffron, not around it.
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