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Recently eliminated Next Foodnetwork Star, and self-proclaimed “Middle Eastern Momma”, Penny Davidi may have had a somewhat rocky time building relationships with a few of her cast mates, but this Persian girl definitely made a lasting impression on the judges with her cooking skills.

Cooking a variety of dishes from all over the Middle East, the core of Penny’s well-praised seasoning and point of view was quite Persian throughout her time on the show. Continue Reading

The summer season is upon us.

The kids are out of school and families are planning for excursions that will take them on both long and short distance travel.

Whether traveling on a plane, ship, train, or a personal car we all do better with a planned itinerary; a road map if you will to keep us on schedule.

Why not plan a road map to also keep healthy and safe during the season? Continue Reading

Although April was National Minority Health Month, health awareness should be an ongoing effort, and knowledge about the prevalence of a disease within a family structure is important to all of us, particularly to immigrant families because we are scattered across the globe with infrequent communication. For example, while a cousin is diagnosed with breast cancer in the U.S., another is diagnosed with colon cancer in Iran, and a third with heart disease in Australia.

This year, UK-based industrial design team, Arash + Kelly are planning to take their environmental initiatives one step further by making their Genius Pads and sticky notes from non-Tree, waste pulp–collected from crop farms–turned into unbleached paper.

“We’re launching the first batch of treeless paper sticky notes with public collective investment,” the designers envision. “We believe that people would like to switch to treeless paper and by launching in this way, we can all send out a message to the stationery and paper industries, and a beacon of hope to our precious forests.”

You can be part of the treeless sticky note campaign by becoming collective investors in the production of Treeless Paper sticky notes.

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The Tehran Zoo recently laid to rest 14 lions at their facility, once learning that the lions had been diagnosed with an “infectious bacterial disease that could affect visitors”. Continue Reading