Iran


April 6, 2011

Happy Hour: The Desert Ain’t That Dry

by Payman Bahmani

The Prohibition Era figures prominently in the collective imagination of the cocktail world. The aura and mystique surrounding that era still wields great influence on popular culture. The popularity of HBO’s Boardwalk Empire is a perfect example of our still not fully reconciled fascination with that period, as is the proliferation of modern “speakeasies” in […]

October 20, 2008

Fast Food and Coca-Cola in Iran

by UM Guest

By Jane Stillwater What do they eat in Tehran? Fast food! It’s true. I’m here in Iran and only have brief access to a computer so I’m typing as fast as I can but they do eat a lot of fast food here. Tehran is a very westernized city except that us ladies all have […]