by The White Moustache
Preserving Old World in the New World
How do you preserve a culture when you’re forced to leave the country you call home?
For The White Moustache, it means preserving a painstaking, but loving process rooted in the family’s Persian and Zoroastrian heritage. It means eschewing conventional norms of how we produce food, while enhancing flavor, richness, and legacy.
In this Whole Story, we explore how yogurt and whey reflect a life affected by immigration, community, adaptation, and experimentation.
“I painted with my grief. I made flavors that I hadn’t tasted in forever. And I got to honor that, and I got to share that. And that healed me.
It opened me up to a lot of love, a lot of experiences, a lot of curiosity where before I had rage and I had angst, and I had just a lot of discomfort, kind of like, trying to cram myself into this idea that I had created for myself. And this sort of freed me from that.”
Homa Dashtaki, Founder, The White Moustache
The Living Ingredients
Preserving The Whey
Whey is the elixir that results from the meticulous starting process of yogurt. To celebrate the yogurt-making process, The White Moustache created an assortment of products from whey.