Kashmir’s famed saffron faces devastating new terror: Porcupines Kashmir’s saffron farmers are losing 30 percent of their crop to the rodents as deforestation pushes them into farms.

Economic Hardship Reporting Project and The Guardian profile an Iranian-influenced pastry startup founded by a culinary entrepreneur who wants to share her Iranian culture and the region's tastes ...

The part of the plant you actually eat -- the vivid crimson stigmas -- produce saffron, the world's most coveted and expensive spice, and they come from just one plant: Crocus sativus. These stigmas ...

Pixel-Shot // Shutterstock ‘Barberry And Saffron’: Bakery startup bringing a taste of Iran to Brooklyn At the Crown Heights, New York, Whoopsie Daisy bar in Brooklyn, on a sunny fall afternoon ...

Economic Hardship Reporting Project and The Guardian profile an Iranian-influenced pastry startup founded by a culinary entrepreneur who wants to share her Iranian culture and the region's tastes ...