Drinks

Parsis are no strangers to wine. Legend says that wine was discovered long ago, during the reign of Jamshed, the mythical philosopher-king of Persia. He was so fond of grapes that one day he decided to preserve them in jars. Sampling his experiment, he thought they tasted odd. Instead of throwing them out, he put the jars aside, marked as poison. A woman in Jamshed’s household had such a bad headache that she wanted to die. Spying one of the marked jars, she drank its contents down and fell into a swoon from which she recovered happily. From that day on, the now-renamed jars contained zehr-i-khoosh, “poison of delight.”