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We start the programme today with the story of a relationship between a Canadian woman and an Iranian man which broke custom and the law, and put both of them at risk. Jennifer Klinec was 31 and running a cookery school in London. She went to Iran in search of new recipes, and there she met a younger, inexperienced man called Vahid. And they started an affair. This is a country where marriages are usually arranged by the family and there is meant to be no physical contact before marriage. Even holding hands can get you arrested. Jennifer has just written a book about the experience called The Temporary Bride and she's here in the Outlook studio. Thank you for coming in.
Thank you.
Your first date at a camel slaughterhouse. Okay. So, what a place to start a romance! What exactly was going on in there?
Yeah. It actually arose as a result of a misunderstanding. Basically Vahid said: "I'm going to take you on a sort of a food adventure. What kind of things do you want to do?" And I said: "I've, you know I've never had camel meat. Can we go to the butcher where they sell it?" And he misunderstood butcher to mean slaughterhouse. So when he told me: "This is where we're going next. We have to get a taxi. It's quite far out of the city coz it's messy." I thought: Oh my God. We are going to a slaughterhouse.
And you didn't think of saying: "You know what? Maybe not."
I kind of thought about it. But you know, I grew up in a family where it wasn't unusual my parents would go to a farm and say: "We want that pig" and it would be cut, and you know, we would take it home and roast it on our front lawn. So it wasn't a huge stretch but I'd never actually been to a slaughterhouse before. | 
发表于 2016-10-17 19:24:49