Iran Renames Danish Pastries - "Mohammedan" Pastry - if you don't like it - it kills you.

Back in 1965 I lived with a Persian-Jewish family for two years in Jerusalem. The family had walked from Persia to Israel in the 1920s losing about 6 children on the multi-year journey. The mother baked Persian sweets such as baklava, almond halva (with crushed almonds, sugar, ground sesame seeds), sugar coated almonds "Noghl", and flour cookies made from chickpea, almonds, or rice-flours.

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