Lit birthday candles melting on top of a cake, with a dark background - Gloria Sonda / 500px/Getty Images Not everyone gets excited about a traditional birthday cake (I'm not one of them), but for ...

We may earn a commission from links on this page. Using up a little bit of leftover rice isn’t much of an ordeal—drop a half cup into soup or chili, or use it to bulk up a salad. It’s when you have ...

If Oakland’s Helia Sadeghi had to eat one dish for the rest of her life, it would be crispy, buttery, comforting tahchin. In Sadeghi’s childhood home in Iran, the golden domed rice “cake” layered with ...