Azita Mehran loves Persian food. As the Iranian-born Blogger of the Week told us Tuesday, not only are the richly spiced dishes part of her heritage, they’re also a crucial link back to her late ...

For example, in the northern and southern parts of Iran, due to its proximity to Caspian Sea and Persian Gulf, a variety of foods prepared with fish is abundant, or the northwestern parts of Iran have ...

Most Iranis I have met in India frown at the mention of Iranian or Persian restaurants in the country, emphasising on the fact that the dishes served are far from being authentic. Unlike Indian ...

Emmy-winning Shohreh Aghdashloo, who also received the first Academy Award nomination for an Iranian actress, leads us on a Persian food crawl. (Mariah Tauger / Los Angeles Times) Spending an ...

CASCADE TOWNSHIP, Mich. (WOOD) — Nearly two years after Shiraz Grille closed, a new Persian restaurant has popped up on 28th Street. (An August 2022 photo shows the menu for Backyard Persian ...

The world is insanely small. I’m sitting outside a bakery-cafe in Tallinn, Estonia, called Røst; it makes amazing, elaborately latticed cardamom buns. A couple just sat down next to me. They live in ...

Zócalo Public Square is a magazine of ideas from Arizona State University Knowledge Enterprise. My cavalier cooking practices have been a cause for shame and concern for my Iranian mother. To me, ...

There was a time when — if you had a hankering for nice plate or kashke bademjan, tahdig or fesenjoon — you had to negotiate the terrors of the Ventura Freeway, and the quirks of the 405, to make your ...

Take a seat at any of Houston’s Persian restaurants, and you will likely be greeted with a plate of warm taftoon bread and a heaping portion of fresh herbs and feta. Stay until dessert, and the waiter ...

Spending an afternoon with Shohreh Aghdashloo is what I imagine hanging out with the president of the United States is like. There are selfies with fans, calls of adoration from across the street and ...