After flying back from Mazar to Kabul, I spend the day exploring the city through its traditional food — from smoky chopan kebab and fluffy ashak dumplings to street-side bolani and the famous Sheer ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Chelsea Davis is a SF based journalist covering food, drink & travel. Touted as the Bay Area’s first ever contemporary Afghan ...

A bold culinary adventure in Afghanistan as I try brain soup, a traditional local delicacy. This unusual dish offers a unique glimpse into Afghan culture, flavors, and culinary traditions that have ...

Sophia Akbar, the co-founder and co-owner of Oakland restaurants Parche and Jaji, was born and grew up in Walnut Creek. New Concord restaurant Mazza is offering an authentic taste of Afghanistan At ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. When Storai Jalali and her husband Murtaza moved to State College in 2022 as refugees from Kabul, Afghanistan, the first thing ...

Dianne de Guzman is the regional editor for Eater’s Northern California/Pacific Northwest sites, writing about restaurant and bar trends, upcoming openings, and pop-ups for the San Francisco Bay Area, ...

When Mohib Sadat opened his new restaurant in Concord earlier this year, he decided to name it Mazza, which means “taste” in his native Afghanistan. The taste of Afghanistan is exactly what he was ...

Until the U. S. invasion of Afghanistan in 2001, Americans who thought of Afghanistan at all thought of it as a remote, mountainous and landlocked country, first a pawn in the Cold War, then oppressed ...

Friends Mohammad Qasim Rahimi and Mohammad Zubair Alemyar have introduced the greatest hits of their native cuisine to Buffalo through pop-up Khoshmazeh Afghan Cuisine, which serves from noon to 4 p.m ...

Becoming a restaurant owner was not in Nelofar Mayar’s plans, but her love of Greenville and of sharing her culture and food have merged in a beautiful way that she never expected. At Mayar’s Aryana ...