Posts tagged “herbs”

Cooking Lesson 1: Anchorage Ethnic Markets (Part 3 of 4)

Crystal Abbot and Sammi Hudson

By Laurie Constantino and Nora Morse

Last week, for Cooking Lesson #1, I took Nora Morse to some of my favorite Anchorage ethnic stores. Starting April 1, Nora and I chat about stores we visited. Lesson #1 (all 4 parts) is the first of a series of columns Nora and I ...

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Celebrate Nowruz, Persian New Year’s Day, with Kookoo Sabzi

Happy Nowruz! Happy Persian New Year!

Nowruz, which translates as “New Day” or “New Light”, is the name given New Year’s Day in the Persian (Iranian) calendar. Nowruz has been celebrated for over 3000 years across the region that once made up the Persian Empire.

Before the Greeks, Romans, and Ottoman Turks ...

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