how she first started making whole-milk yogurt in Orange County based on a family recipe with her father, Goshtasb Dashtaki, whose bushy facial hair inspired the company’s name. She began setting up shop at the Laguna Beach Farmers Market — and quickly found herself in a
She also recalls pomegranate harvests in October and the ritual of sorting through which ones were ripe, which could be “stored well into the winter in their leathery encasings” and which ones needed to be processed immediately for juice or the boiled-down paste that flavored fesenjan and many other dishes.The family moved to Southern California when Dashtaki was 8. A year later, while grappling with belonging as an immigrant, she resolved to be a lawyer.
Dishes made from breakfast recipes in Homa Dashktaki’s cookbook “Yogurt & Whey.” Pictured is her father, Goshtasb Dashtaki, whose facial hair inspired the name of her White Moustache yogurt company. For Angelenos, Eataly is the destination. White Moustache is made by hand there in small batches. “If you, we will arrange for you to be able to pick up whey and charge only for the packaging,” she relays in a phone conversation.
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