SLIDESHOWS: Quick Grilling

Watermelon and Squid Salad

Most of the dishes on the menu at Iranian chef Hoss Zaré's restaurant are not ones his mother would have recognized. "I like to bring together the cuisines I've learned—French, Italian, Californian—with Persian flavors," he says. For instance, his grilled squid and watermelon salad would never be found in Iran. But its dusting of ground sumac—a tart dried berry—is distinctly Persian.

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