The food altar at our summer solstice celebration 🌞🪞
Precious gifts of the summer, sacred treasures from Iran, and offerings of sweet guests gave life to our altar. As always, the foodscape was filled with flavors of home; an abundance of herbs, nuts, fruits, and freshly baked bread.
Autumnal mornings are so extra cozy and special at the teahouse. Join us for our monthly Persian Breakfast this Sunday. Link in bio to reserve a spot. 💛
Sunday, Nov 2nd
First sundays🗓️
Daytime tea lounge + persian brunch
@tea__at__shiloh
Bits and pieces of a foodscape I designed for a magical forest wedding over the summer
A heavenly grazing table filled with stunning fresh fruits and snacks. This was a very apricot heavy evening, thanks to the vision of the Moroccan bride and to our perfect and brief apricot season. In addition to this apricot river on the grazing table, we had an apricot wedding cake! So grateful for the love and trust and the abundance of apricots.
Creating foodscapes like this a dream. I lose myself in the design and the process every time and there’s no feeling like it. But it’s an even more profound experience in a setting like this. Surrounded by the redwoods, showing off the beauty of all the gifts the earth gives us. I can’t stop thinking about it.
Because all i think about is how lucky we are to live on this earth surrounded by this much freakin magic 🌿🎋✨🍀🍃
🧚🏽♂️ Email me for all your grazing table and foodscape needs🤍
PERSIAN BREAKFAST back this Sunday with @bigdillkitchen
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10a - 3p
Helia (of Big Dill Kitchen) is an Iranian food artist, poet, and storyteller whose work pays homage to the sights and flavors of her homeland. Deeply rooted in the earth’s rhythms, Helia creates nourishment that tells stories of belonging, memory, and place.
Helia has been serving the comforting flavors of Iran all over California for the past three years. From homey stews, soups, and mountains of jeweled rice, to fresh takes on salads and desserts, she has been bringing underappreciated Iranian dishes to those who crave it. Yet, nothing brings her home like the simple, comforting, and fresh flavors of noon panir sabzi. Raised on the fruits and herbs from her grandparents’ farm in the outskirts of Isfahan, Helia remembers weekends with long spreads of breakfast shared with family in the crisp morning air of the farm, filled with bounties of herbs grown on the land. This Persian breakfast offering pays homage to those early days at the farm that shaped her love for gathering loved ones around long spreads of food, over endless stretches of time, treasuring the simple ingredients that the earth has gifted us.
Nowruz pirooz and blessed spring to all who honor nature’s new year around the world. Specially to the beautiful people in Iran, celebrating the new year, planting flowers, and practicing our ancient traditions under bombs and amidst infinite grief.
These rituals are what has held us throughout the decades of violence and oppression. Remembering is resistance. Carrying our traditions is resistance.
Every year I write a note on what the symbolic elements of the haftseen altar mean for my year. This year feels extra hard to find meaning, but returning to our ancestral wisdom has always been the way, so I wrote it down. My haftseen was complete this year with sumac from Isfahan, seashells from the caspian sea, a spring harvest of lima beans and flowers, and my first homemade samanoo.
May Iran and Iranians be free from all oppressors and perpetrators of violence. May all beings be free from suffering.
به امید روزی که نوروزو در بهار آزادی جشن بگیریم.🫂🕊️
Our hearts are breaking for Iran every day. As we navigate these devastating times, our monthly shabe sher can be a space to gather in community and hold this collective grief together. Words and poetry have always been a way for our people to resist and preserve through millenia and countless occurrences of oppression. May we use this night to hold each other and center ourselves in this liberation struggle for the long run.
January 27th
Last Tuesdays, 7-9:30PM
@astralab_la
Rsvp link in bio🫂
This friday, in honor of the winter solstice, we invite you to bring a poem, written words, or any piece that speaks to you. This can be in any language, with a translation or explanation. We also welcome instruments, jam sessions, song performances, poetry books, and musical offerings.
Winter solstice marks the longest night of the year, the final night of autumn, is a celestial moment, a sacred pause before the days grow longer and brighter. The ancient celebration of winter solstice, Yalda, honors this transition as the triumph of light over darkness and the metaphorical birth of the sun.
This will be in our private tea lounge, the annex. Reservations can be made via our calendar.
#yalda #solstice #wintersolstice #teahouse
Really trying to savor the last treasures of late summer. Simple things are the best.
White peach and persian cucumber salad with basil, honey, sumac, sea salt, and @hellobranche evoo🍑
PERSIAN BREAKFAST at the teahouse
every first sunday of the month
daylight hours
w @bigdillkitchen
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