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On reinvention, a Gibson Les Paul, and the specific gap between who you think you look like and who you actually look like. When you arrive in a new country at thirteen, one of the first things you have to figure out is who you are going to be. The person you were before does…
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My father had an orchard on the outskirts of Tehran. A mile off a dirt road, its own well, its own generator that you started with a hand crank, and far enough from everything that when you were there, you were genuinely there, no city noise, no neighbors, just fruit trees and the particular silence…
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On parenthood, a son’s soccer goal, and the berry chantilly cake both my children agree on.
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A childhood summer in Tehran, the 1982 Brazil team, and a lesson in how to move through the world — with a Brazilian pavê recipe.
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On childhood in Tehran, change, and the bitterness of losing small things — with a chocolate ganache layer cake recipe.
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Why the things we make with our hands matter more than we’re supposed to admit — plus the browned-butter, milk-powder cookie that started it all.
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