Rayy Eggplant & Sun-Dried Yogurt in Lavash Rolls

Rayy is now little more than a village a few miles southeast of Tehran, but it once was a great city, with a history going back to the third millennium bce. During the 8th century ce it was a major entrepot on the Silk Road, its splendors rivaled only by those of Baghdad and Damascus. It was the birthplace of Haroun al-Rashid, the eighth-century caliph of Baghdad, whose wild (and fictional) adventures enliven the 1001 Nights. In the thirteenth century the Mongols almost entirely destroyed t