As founder of much-loved White Moustache yogurt company, Homa Dashtaki imparts the wisdom of making yogurt the same way her family has for generations. She harnesses this traditional knowledge to inspire versatile uses of an overlooked ingredient: whey, the liquid gold extracted from straining homemade yogurt.

Across 100 recipes ranging from ancient see-rogh to rum cocktails, ghormeh-sabzi to lemon meringue pie, Dashtaki weaves in and out of recipes both nostalgic and inventive. Her years of obsessively making yogurt have resulted in a love for every drop of whey, which she imparts to home cooks through recipes that showcase its greatness. Embrace whey’s bright tang in a summer gazpacho, or a pitcher of pineapple margaritas. Enjoy the crispy edges it lends to fluffy creamy pancakes.

Enlivened by hand-drawn illustrations and dreamy photographs, Yogurt & Whey embraces immigration, community, adaptation, and experimentation and absurdly creamy, change-your-life, yogurt.

Other cookbooks by this author

• Yogurt & Whey: Recipes of an Iranian Immigrant Life