White Moustache: Yogurt
Ice cream shop · Red Hook ·
Craveably tart, thick yogurt from family tradition to market
Craveably tart, thick yogurt from family tradition to market
"A yogurt brand that the market helped launch, White Mustache is now sold on grocery store shelves around the country after getting started at Brooklyn Flea events." - Emma Orlow
"Founded against long odds, this food venture and its companion cookbook center on celebrating humble, single-ingredient foods—especially yogurt and rice. The founder combines entrepreneurial storytelling with practical, nostalgic recipes that show how to make yogurt at home (while recommending a plain commercial option like Fage when needed) and how to pair it with perfectly cooked basmati rice as a comforting, restorative meal. The book lays out a detailed rice technique—rinse and soak, salt the cooking water, par-cook until grains show a small "spine," drain, return to a butter-lined tight pot, shape into a pyramid with butter pockets, seal the lid with a towel, and steam so the grains stay individual while an optional tahdig forms—and encourages using yogurt as a sauce to rescue leftovers or to dress dishes with toppings from barberries to roast chicken. Overall, the project celebrates simplicity, family rituals, and the everyday value of foods often taken for granted." - Ali Slagle
"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
"A craft-beer vendor in the marketplace offering a selection of brews to wash down food-hall fare." - Sanjay Surana
"A Red Hook yogurt maker owned by Homa Dashtaki that supplies several hundred gallons of whey weekly for repurposing; known for promoting culinary uses of whey since 2014 and acting as an early advocate for transforming that by-product into cooking and drinking ingredients." - Grub Street
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