Nowruz Set with Marzipan Goldfish, New Year Coins, Dried Lotus Fruit

A few choice items to help you complete your Nowruz sofreh, the beautiful table decorated with symbolic foods and objects for Persian New Year! The goldfish, coins, and cookies symbolize life, abundance, and sweetness, respectively, all important elements of the New Year table. Fashioning foods like fish and fruit out of marzipan paste is an old Sicilian art form still practiced at traditional Italian bakeries, and that is where the idea for the marzipan goldfish comes from. Instead of buying a live goldfish who may not survive past the Nowruz holiday, borrowing this whimsical idea from the Sicilians means you get a beautiful little goldfish that you can save for next year.

The set contains:

One goldfish handmade from marzipan almond paste

Six celebration coins for the New Year

Five dried lotus fruits