PITTSBURGH — If you don’t know a lot about Afghan cuisine, it’s understandable. Yet many of its flavors and ingredients are familiar to those who enjoy foods from other cultures, and a few traditional ...

I had my first taste of Afghan mantu — steamed meat dumplings — this summer, and swooned over their savory filling and delicate dough. But it was the way the dumplings were served that stuck with me ...

Khalis Noori knows that making mantu – traditional Afghan dumplings stuffed with beef and topped with yogurt, split peas, and dried mint – is a labor of love. So much so, that he and his wife never ...

A restaurant in Oakland scheduled to open January 30 is seeking to bring the cuisine of Afghanistan to new heights. Jaji, co-owned by Sophia Akbar and Paul Iglesias of Parche, will walk the line ...