Photos from Persian Cooking Class

 

Naz Deravian is a James Beard Award nominated author of Bottom of the Pot – Persian Recipes and Stories (Flatiron Books). She is the recipient of The IACP Julia Child First Book Award, presented by The Julia Child Foundation for Gastronomy and the Culinary Arts. She has been published in The Atlantic, The Los Angeles Times, Saveur, O Magazine, and Montecristo Magazine. She has also been profiled in The New York Times and Bon Appetit magazine, among others. Ms. Deravian was born in Iran, she grew up in Canada and now lives in Los Angeles with her husband and two children.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Hanif Sadr was born in Paris, France and raised in Tehran, Iran. He is a chef and co-founder of Komaaj Food group, a Northern Iranian restaurant and catering company based in Berkeley, California.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Faz Poursohi is an acclaimed chef and culinary entrepreneur. Born in Soh, Iran, Faz has a degree in systems engineering from the University of Illinois. He began his culinary career as a college student and worked his way up to management of several prestigious restaurants with Lettuce Entertain You, Inc. out of Chicago and then joined Spectrum Foods as opening chef of MacArthur Park, Palo Alto until opening his own restaurants. He currently has five restaurants and a bakery in the Bay Area, four are FAZ Mediterranean restaurants in Danville, San Jose, Sunnyvale, and Pleasanton, MacArthur Park restaurant in Palo Alto, and FAZ Bakery & Coffee Bar in Danville.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Hailed as “The Grande Dame of Iranian Cooking” by The Washington Post, has spent the past 40 years cooking, traveling, and adapting authentic Persian recipes to tastes and techniques in the West. The 25th Anniversary Edition of her book Food of Life: Ancient Persian and Modern Iranian Cooking and Ceremonies was called “A classic cookbook made even better…Gorgeous expanded edition” by Russ Parsons in the Los Angeles Times. Her Silk Road Cooking: A Vegetarian Journey was selected as “One of the 10 best vegetarian cookbooks of 2004” by The New York Times, while her most recent book, Cooking in Iran: Regional Recipes and Kitchen Secrets was selected as one of the 19 best cookbooks of Autumn 2018 by The New York Times, where Julia Moskin called it, "Magisterial...An engrossing visual feast of modern Iran…An essential new book”; and Evan Kleiman of KCRW Radio selected it as her “Cookbook of 2018.” Najmieh is a member of Les Dames d’Escoffier and lives in Washington, D.C., where she teaches Persian and Silk Road cooking, and consults with restaurants around the world.