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Persian Catering

Persian Catering in Orange County

Welcome to Catering Services OC, where we offer the best Persian catering services in Orange County, California.Whether you are planning a buffet, seated dinner, cocktail party, or fundraiser, we offer you innovative cuisine customized to you – ideal for the season and perfect for the chosen theme of your event. After years of wining and dining thousands of happy customers, we ensure your event unfolds just as you imagined!

Catering Services OC culinary brilliance continues to set the standard of authentic Persian dining. Our talented and experienced chefs bring an advanced level of creativity and flavor to all presentations. Our customizable catering options include delicious hors douvres, appetizers, entrees, and desserts. With boundless menu selections, special ethnic, dietary, and seasonal options are a breeze!

As one of the leading catering companies in Orange County and the preferred Persian caterer for the area’s most prominent venues Catering Services OC offers an assorted variety of classic and contemporary settings to host any size occasion. Planning a destination event? Our experienced Destination Events team will accommodate your every need in any location.

Whether you’re arranging a family-style dinner for ten or buffet for 500, Catering Services OC renowned Persian cuisine offers a first-class, fine-dining experience.

History of Persian Food

          Persian food takes time-from grinding spices in the morning to simmering fragrant stews for hours, Persian cuisine requires patience. Of course, it took over a thousand years for Persian cuisine to develop. Incorporating elements of Indian, Greek, Arabic, and Turkish cooking, Persian food is a product of cosmopolitan history.

Until 1934, Iran was known as Persia, leading to the association of Iranian and Persian food. An enormous empire that originated nearly 2000 years before classical Greece, Persia once extended all the way to India. One of the earliest introductions to Persian cooking was Indian curry. The Persian occupation of India also brought basmati rice, now a staple ingredient.

Skipping ahead those two millennia, Greece invaded Persia around 200 CE. Then, the Greeks brought grape leaves, yogurt, and a categorization of foods into “hot” and “cold,” a Greek medical tradition. Â When the Arab caliphates invaded in Persia in the 600s, lamb, dates, and figs were introduced. Then, the Ottoman Empire took over Persian land in the 900s. Along with the Turks came stuffed foods (Turkish dolma), meatballs (kofte), kebabs, and coffee.

The constantly shifting landscape of empires, expanding trade networks, and increased commerce between Europe and Asia made Persia a meeting place for spices, seeds, and fruits. A true melting pot of different cuisines, Persia constructed a unique culinary tradition from international ingredients and techniques.

Stews, or khoresh, make up the soul of Persian cooking. Ingredients might include celery, prunes, spinach, pomegranates, chicken, walnuts, eggplant, or most importantly, lamb. Incredibly diverse, khoresh usually comes with chelow. A golden-crusted basmati rice, chelow looks like a domed cake. Tah dig, that golden-crust, is given to an honored guest.

Italian Catering

Welcome to Catering Services OC, where we offer the best Italian catering services in Orange County, California. The first thing I want you to know is that Catering Services OC is all about making you happy. Our goal is to provide you with excellent service and extraordinary meals. We wish you one of life’s greatest pleasures: to sit with friends and loved ones around a table, enjoying good food, good wine and laughter.
With the help of our dedicated staff, we are able to offer the best Italian catering experience in Orange County. We have over 100 menu items available with our 7 day a week 24 hour dependable delivery service, it’s easy to see why our customers rate us as the best among Orange County Italian restaurants. We offer full catering services or drop off with the ability to cater for 10 – 1000 people. Corporate catering accounts are available. Since we have been in business over 15 years, we have been serving pizza and pasta along with our other classic Italian recipes which have made us famous.Catering Services OC has won numerous awards for outstanding menu items and service.

History of Italian Food

When you dig into the history of Italian food you realize that there is much more to it than cheese dripping pizza and heaped up piles of pasta. Italy expands over a sizeable piece of southern Europe and has many different regions each having their own special cuisine and eating habits. The cooking styles and ingredients also vary from area to area. The cuisine of Italy has also been influenced with the changes that have taken place in the world through the passage of time. Today the Italian cuisine features meals that retain the pre Roman era taste along with others that are strikingly different to the traditional cuisine of Italy.

Tracing down the culinary history of Italy we find that it started to make its mark during the Roman Empire movement more than 2000 years ago. The Italians even have a cookbook dating back to the first century B.C which shows how important a place food had in society. The structure of Italy as a country underwent a huge change after the fall of the Roman Empire. Italy was now a body of individually governed states that had separate and distinctive identities and hence developed their own tradition. This era was the time when the cuisine of Italy started developing its diversity that we find in it today. Each region developed its own distinctive style of cooking and a formalized menu based on the local ingredients and the lifestyle of the people living there. You would find great variance in the way similar dishes are prepared in different regions.

Tuscan beef is an item belonging to the north whereas black truffles originated in Marches. The south is credited for producing mozzarella cheese and provolone along with a rich growth of citrus fruits. There was great variance even amongst the most commonly consumed items in Italy such as the different types or breads and pastas. We find the southern part of Italy was into hard boiled spaghetti whereas the northern regions were more akin to consuming soft egg noodles. Pizza originated from Naples, tortellini from Bologna and Milan is famous for risotto.

Through the course of time however Italian cuisine has evolved into a breed of its own due to a large amount of external influences. The Italians had initially absorbed ancient Greek cookery into their culture. With Roman ships bringing back wheat, wine, fine spices and other exotic ingredients the Italians added new imports to their kitchens. The Italians got their ingredients from all across the world going even as far as China.

The coastal regions of Italy are credited for all the lovely fish and seafood recipes that we have today. Anchovies, swordfish, lobster and sardines are some of the main seafood items used in the coastal areas. Traces of Arab influence can also be found especially in the cuisine of Sicily with its spices and sweets. The origins of pasta are till date disputed as some claim it to be a product imported from China whereas others say it is Italy’s local produce which was consumed during Etruscan and Roman times. Today however Italian cuisine is extremely diverse and rich which is why it is considered one of the most unique and amazing cuisines in the world.

Mediterranean Catering

Mediterranean Catering in Orange County

Welcome to Catering Services OC, where we offer the best Mediterranean catering services in Orange County, California. Whether you are planning a buffet, seated dinner, cocktail party, or fundraiser, we offer you innovative cuisine customized to you – ideal for the season and perfect for the chosen theme of your event. After years of wining and dining thousands of happy customers, we ensure your event unfolds just as you imagined!

Catering Services OC culinary brilliance continues to set the standard of authentic Mediterranean dining. Our talented and experienced chefs bring an advanced level of creativity and flavor to all presentations. Our customizable catering options include delicious hors douvres, appetizers, entrees, and desserts. With boundless menu selections, special ethnic, dietary, and seasonal options are a breeze!

As one of the leading catering companies in Orange County and the preferred Mediterranean caterer for the area’s most prominent venues Catering Services OC offers an assorted variety of classic and contemporary settings to host any size occasion. Planning a destination event? Our experienced Destination Events team will accommodate your every need in any location.

Whether you’re arranging a family-style dinner for ten or buffet for 500, Catering Services OC Mediterranean cuisine offers a first-class, fine-dining experience.

History of Mediterranean Food

          Mediterranean food takes time-from grinding spices in the morning to simmering fragrant stews for hours, Persian cuisine requires patience. Of course, it took over a thousand years for Persian cuisine to develop. Incorporating elements of Indian, Greek, Arabic, and Turkish cooking, Persian food is a product of cosmopolitan history.

Until 1934, Iran was known as Persia, leading to the association of Iranian and Persian food. An enormous empire that originated nearly 2000 years before classical Greece, Persia once extended all the way to India. One of the earliest introductions to Persian cooking was Indian curry. The Persian occupation of India also brought basmati rice, now a staple ingredient.

Skipping ahead those two millennia, Greece invaded Persia around 200 CE. Then, the Greeks brought grape leaves, yogurt, and a categorization of foods into “hot” and “cold,” a Greek medical tradition. Â When the Arab caliphates invaded in Persia in the 600s, lamb, dates, and figs were introduced. Then, the Ottoman Empire took over Persian land in the 900s. Along with the Turks came stuffed foods (Turkish dolma), meatballs (kofte), kebabs, and coffee.

The constantly shifting landscape of empires, expanding trade networks, and increased commerce between Europe and Asia made Persia a meeting place for spices, seeds, and fruits. A true melting pot of different cuisines, Persia constructed a unique culinary tradition from international ingredients and techniques.

Stews, or khoresh, make up the soul of Mediterranean cooking. Ingredients might include celery, prunes, spinach, pomegranates, chicken, walnuts, eggplant, or most importantly, lamb. Incredibly diverse, khoresh usually comes with chelow. A golden-crusted basmati rice, chelow looks like a domed cake. Tah dig, that golden-crust, is given to an honored guest.