Embark on an incredible food tour through Iran and discover the hidden culinary treasures that mainstream media like CNN won’t show you! From vibrant street food to traditional Persian dishes, this ...

This video begins with a rare look inside a massive Iranian food factory employing over 10,000 people. Viewers see the incredible scale, machinery, and organization behind feeding millions across the ...

For the fourth year in a row, the Nowruz festival is making its way to Downtown Phoenix. Arizonans are invited to celebrate the arrival of spring alongside the Iranian community, welcoming the new ...

Sara Akhavan is a writer, creative director, and marketing professional living in Southern California by way of North Carolina. For many Persian families, a meal is a kind of performance. It’s saffron ...

KQED’s Silicon Valley Unseen is a series of photo essays, original reporting and underreported histories that survey the tech capital’s overlooked communities and subcultures from a local perspective.

On an early evening in mid-March, I relaxed into a dinner that has become an annual tradition. The meal — celebrating Nowruz, the ancient rite of the vernal equinox, rooted in Zoroastrianism and ...

When Mariam Shahsavarani was choosing a name for her new Persian fine-dining restaurant — likely the first of its kind in Chicago — she knew exactly whom she wanted to honor. Her grandmother, after ...

The first glimpse of a plate of food deposited before us at a restaurant summons a range of indicative grunts. Sometimes, the plating and the portion size underwhelm. Other times, they impress. At ...

London’s Berenjak has made its way to Los Angeles. The Michelin Bib Gourmand-winning contemporary Iranian restaurant opened in downtown L.A.’s Arts District’s Soho Warehouse on Sept. 24, but they gave ...

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 ...

Joui Wine in Dayton’s Fire Blocks District will be transformed into a traditional meykhaneh when it features five courses of Persian food paired with four wines on Wednesday, June 19. Owner Lauren Gay ...