Meet Ben
It’s a common fact that you need to train your skills in order to benefit from them. When we translate this to cooking skills, one must (1) consistently perform try-outs (and miserably fail from time…
Oven Baked Stuffed Zucchini
Experimental cooking is the best type of cooking in my opinion. Yes, there is always a chance that you completely mess up dinner and have a bunch of sad dinner guests, but that’s why we…
Markthal – Rotterdam
Whenever I travel to Madrid, I take the cab straight to one of my favorite places: Mercado de San Miguel, a cute indoor market place where you can buy fresh produce, taste beautiful food (I…
Meet Lúcia
It’s always a sincere pleasure to meet people with a passion for food. Not just to taste their signature dishes and listen to their fabulous food stories, but also to just meet our fellow ‘earthlings’….
Food Truck Festival Trek
There’s food, theater, music, art and of course, many fabulous Dishtales to share with you today. Little over a month ago I visited the second edition of a fantastic FoodieVent called TREK, a food truck…
Chapter 5: Advieh – The Fragrance of Persia
Advieh is the Farsi word for ‘spice mix’. This mixture is widely used in Persian cuisine and although there are some minor variations in different Advieh recipes (and as most of us simply DON’T live…
Meet Eva
Fall has arrived and as the colors of the world start to change we all prepare for that temperature to drop as well. Considering that the Dishtales headquarters are in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, we are…
Chapter 4: Mirza Ghasemi (Persian Eggplant Dish)
I was only 2 years old when my family left Iran, during the turmoil of the revolution and a war. The first time I set foot on Iranian soil was not until my early…