LOS ANGELES (JTA) — Persian culture makes up an important part of the Jewish community in New York, Israel and especially Southern California, where some 45,000 Persian Jews reside. The cuisine of ...

Even before you taste the tangy, leavened Persian flatbread known as sangak or nan-e sangak, there is so much to marvel over. Made of whole wheat flour, it’s sold in sheets so long they could be used ...

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 ...

Originally published in 2015, “History of Bread in Iran” has been published by Iranshenasi Publishing in Tehran. Another Persian translation of the book by Abdolmajid Zavvari, Ehsan Alaipur and Mahmud ...

The day Naz Deravian arrived in North Vancouver from her native Tehran, she turned 10. Having fled Iran at the height of the revolution and hostage crisis two years earlier, in 1980, first to Rome, ...

Commercial Drive is home to Little Italy, Main Street has Little India, and North Vancouver’s Lonsdale Avenue could well be nicknamed Little Iran, with dozens of Persian eateries, groceries, and ...

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