Mealtimes by the Caspian Sea were always displays of abundance. Omid Roustaei's extended family would gather every summer, swimming at the beach in the morning and returning to mounds of food at ...

Her love for cooking Persian food continued when she opened her first gallery in New York City. “Even before the Iranian Revolution of 1979, when my mother lived in Tehran, the Empress Farah ...

“To us in Persian food, herbs are not treated as little, cute things you put on the side of the plate, but rather herbs to us are vegetables,” said Roustaei, author of the new cookbook ...