White Moustache: Yogurt

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"A Brooklyn-based yogurt maker famed for craveably tart, luxuriously thick yogurt that grew from a family tradition into a business sold at farmers markets. Yogurt played a central role in the author’s family life after emigrating from Iran and became a lifeline after a 2008 layoff, when father and daughter began making and selling it; the book teaches the company’s three-day method (including a sensory tip: if you can hold your pinkie in the milk for three seconds, it’s ready to culture). The cookbook mixes practical yogurt how-tos with broader Iranian recipes — from aash-e-reshteh to whey-brined Thanksgiving turkey — plus ideas for using leftovers, and positions yogurt as a thread connecting community, ancestral memory, and the preservation of a small Zoroastrian minority’s culinary traditions." - Eater Staff