Whether or not you've ever watched Shahs of Sunset, you probably know that rice isn't just a key part of Persian cuisine: It's a way of life. But when it comes to this extraordinary culinary tradition ...

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 ...

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 ...

Join Josh and Ollie as they explore the delicious world of Iranian snacks and Persian cuisine with their producer Sepi and her father Jafar. From aromatic Iranian tea and syrupy Sohan to sweet Gaz and ...

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 ...

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 ...

Of the many unusual ingredients in Persian cuisine, rose water, which tastes like flower petals, may be the most exotic. Persians, according to Reyna Simnegar, the Jewish, Venezuelan-born author of ...

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 ...

Hoda Tahmasebi grew up in a Persian family in Baton Rouge. She discovered her passion for food while in New York and came back to New Orleans to enter the local restaurant industry, working her way to ...

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 ...