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 ...

Faloodeh is older than San Francisco, and even older than Jesus — about 400 years older, posits Wikipedia. The traditional Persian dessert of frozen vermicelli noodles, corn starch, sorbet or shaved ...

Have you ever mixed up your night out on the town and started with dessert instead of appetizers? Some of the very best things happen at the beginning, appetizers, and the ending, desserts, so why not ...

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, ...

Why is so much of the good stuff always sold in grams? Saffron, indisputably and for centuries the globe’s dearest flavoring, begins all its measurements in grams. Most recipes using it call for “a ...

There are soups and soups. And then there is Persian pistachio soup. To make this delicacy of modest mien —its mingling of pale green and yellow dotted with red pomegranate seeds — you begin with ...

Ashkan and Diana Taheri moved from Los Angeles to the Valley and opened Ava Bakery and Restaurant in north Phoenix on Seventh Street and E. Union Hills Drive in November 2022. Ashkan was part-owner of ...

Toronto’s newest cultural district was officially inaugurated Saturday in North York, bringing joy and excitement to the ...