This article is my attempt to introduce you to Persian cooking—the food of Iran—and give you a set of recipes to get you ...

For Yalda Night, a Persian celebration of the winter solstice ... (or feel like making them yourself), serve the dip with a traditional Iranian flatbread like barbari or lavash.

On the winter solstice, in a tradition that goes back to around 500 B.C., Iranians stay up until dawn to see the new sun that is born in the morning; yalda means “birth” in Persian.