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 ...

Must-o-Khiar. Photo from Pinterest. The best recipes are those that come with stories, or at least, context. Persian food has variations of “peasant food,” as well as more intricate dishes but I ...

To get you started, I’ve put together a list of essential ingredients for cooking Persian recipes. (For some, I’ve included the Romanized pronunciation of the Persian language names.) Many of these ...

"Kuku is a more elaborate version of a Spanish omelet, made with different fillings from green beans to this amazing herb version that is served for Nowruz (Persian New Year)," writes Anissa Helou in ...