That's what spoon is made for!
Thinking of eating with sticks gives me eating disorder. :p

No, problem and I wonder how you already know this much about Persians.

Zia once found the connection too between the two names. There is an alternate way of writing Esfahan in English which is Isfahan. But I've always preferred to use Esfahan. In Persian we use different "s" for each letter, nonetheless, I like this Corleone style.