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In his 20s, Ebrahimi was cooking kebabs in the kitchen of his family’s mosque, the Ershad Center in South Miami, when he realized the family’s cuisine from Tehran could appeal to a wider audience.

At Javan, it's kebab and rice. While we wait for our food, she gets up from her seat to stand beside me. She wants to play me a clip of herself in "Renfield." ...

Shervin Aghili makes kebabs for a saffron rice bowl in his food truck, Bob's Kebabs, on Aug. 16, 2024. He had his opening day Aug. 2 and is parked outside The Pad in Silverthorne.

Whether you’re a newcomer or well-versed in Iranian food, Saffron Persian Cuisine has something worthwhile to offer. Location: 8846 Huebner Road, 210-637-9007, Facebook: Saffron Persian Cuisine ...

Persian food may not be as prevalent in Santa Monica as in other parts of L.A., but as Tehran Market’s Sunday grill-fests prove, locals have no trouble grasping his cooking.

Koobideh kebabs — an Iranian classic of ground meat shaped with distinctive finger-width indentations — were the comparative standard Helou and I ordered from restaurant to restaurant.

We didn’t dine out that often, but if we went out for Persian food it was typically a kebab house, whether it was in San Francisco or Los Angeles. “The khoresh, or stew, is highly seasonal.

Batmanglij, who teaches cooking and lives in Washington, D.C., left her homeland almost four decades ago. For this book, she traveled 10,000 miles inside Iran to cities and tiny villages, from the ...

There’s also Persian and saffron teas ($1.99-$2.99), the ginger lemonade ($4.99) and something called doogh ($2.99), described as a bubbly yogurt, water and mint.