The name "Persian rolls" might bring to mind Middle Eastern delights with ingredients like rose water, orange blossom, nuts, seeds, and layers of syrup-soaked crispy phyllo sheets. However, the ...

Mona Holmes is an editor at Eater Southern California/Southwest, a regular contributor at KCRW radio, and a 2022 James Beard Award nominee. Delight Pastry’s owner and pastry chef Lily Azar and her ...

Iran's noon khamei may look like a humble sweet but it's actually an iconic cream-filled choux pastry. I was born in Iran and raised in Australia and had the pleasure of travelling back to my birth ...

In Persian cuisine, Hanif Sadr says that komaaj is a pastry bread. Sadr named his catering and restaurant business after a northern Iranian version of the bread that his grandmother used to make. The ...

Welcome back to Ethnic Eating 101! Part 3 of our series on Persian food concentrates on the two ends of the dinner, appetizers and desserts Like any other Middle Eastern culture, Persians have a long ...

"A persian?" I ask my coworkers in our daily meeting during my first week in Thunder Bay. "Yeah it's like a cinnamon roll with fruit icing on top," someone replied. I Google it on my phone and the ...

The Cookie: This cookie is a mystery to me. I just know that I love it and found it at a Persian bakery called Ladan Pastry & Nuts. Owners Mehdi and Touran Mirzaesmaeeli say the beheshti cookie is ...