But the common denominator is food — and lots of it. The plov rice dish is often the centrepiece of a Nowruz meal. Most spreads will include a haft-sin, a display of seven ingredients beginning ...

Nowruz, the Persian New Year celebration ... and I started cooking Iranian food with a lovely friend in Tehran, and we would each week present different dishes as a way of keeping ourselves ...

The meal began with sabzi khordan, a platter full of basil and other bunches of herbs with walnuts, radishes and a small rectangle of feta; deputy Food editor Betty Hallock and I snacked on them ...

Nowruz is celebrated on the spring equinox ... into the cultures and stories of people from the Middle East through food. The conversation has been edited and condensed for clarity.

Today is Nowruz. It marks the coming of the new year in some cultures. But what is Nowruz, and why do people celebrate it? Thursday, March 20, 2025, marks the Persian New Year, or Nowruz, a ...

But Shadi’s Nowruz preparation starts long before the ... Once the house is clean, it’s time to prep the food. Shadi serves ash reshteh, a vegetarian noodle soup; sabzi polo, an herby rice ...

And who can mention traditions without bringing up food? Food is central to the Nowruz celebration, according to the UN. Dishes are prepared with friends and family to foster "a sense of ...