Welcome to my collection of kitchen stories - a space where food, culture, community, art, memory, and wellbeing come together.
Here, I write about the values, rituals, and flavours that shaped me, the ways food carries our identities forward, and the quiet connections that unfold around shared tables.
You’ll find reflections from my cooking journey, stories from the Persian culinary heritage I hold close to my heart, and insights from my work in cultural sustainability - all shared with the hope of nourishing both heart and mind.
Cultural Sustainability
Cultural sustainability is often spoken about as an academic idea — something for researchers, policymakers, or institutions to define.
But for most of us, it begins somewhere much simpler: in our kitchens, our rituals, and the stories we quietly pass from one generation to the next.
Womanhood
Recently, I was invited by Lilan Lamoochi, a student of Education Studies at UCL, to take part in her project on “Feminisms in General Perspective.” She asked me to sit with one simple but layered question: “What does womanhood mean to you?”
Our conversation moved through memories, challenges, cultural expectations, and the many ways care is taught - and sometimes imposed - on women from a young age.