Don’t read this if you’re hungry, because we’re talking holiday desserts. I’ve made Christmas cookies and babka before, but this holiday baking season I wanted to try something the Persian side of my ...

HERE’S WHY I serve Persian tea sweets for Passover. It’s sort of a long story. And it begins with a riddle: How can a person be Iranian and Jewish, but not an Iranian Jew? This is the brain-twister I ...

Yogurt There is almost always some form of dairy present at a Persian meal. Plain full-fat yogurt made from cow, sheep, and goat milk is ubiquitous in Persian cookery. It shows up not only as a ...

This recipe appeared originally on The Nosher. As a kid in Hebrew school, I learned that my classmates would have apples and honey and round challah at Rosh Hashanah to bring in the Jewish New Year, ...

Makes approximately 2 dozen 3- to 4-inch square thin flatbreads. These breads are more like cookies than flatbreads, but they are so simple and delicious we had to include them. They are made with ...

Toot is the Persian word for mulberry, and these eye-catching Iranian sweets, which are traditionally served during Persian New Year, are shaped to look like the fruit. According to Tannaz Sassooni, a ...

If you've had a couple of veggie burgers at restaurants, you'll start to notice a handful of the ingredient standards that go in a patty. There's grated carrots, rice, and maybe oats. Some versions ...

In 2018, pastry chef Sahar Shomali was between restaurant jobs — she’d concluded career-making stints at Spago and Lucques and would soon be making desserts at Hearth & Hound — when she was gripped by ...

TaTi Bakery, an online Iranian bakery, opened its first physical location inside Tala Food Market in north Phoenix, just in time for Nowruz (Persian New Year), which begins on March 20, 2023. The ...