Skip to Content
Talkhouse home
Talkhouse home
Podcast

864: Nixta Taquería Loves Tahdig and Tacos in Equal Measure

By This Is TASTE

3:00 AM EST on November 6, 2026

Nixta Taquería is an award-winning, genre-bending restaurant in Austin, Texas, helmed by Sara Mardanbigi, head of operations, and Edgar Rico, a chef whose résumé includes Son of a Gun, Sqirl, and Pujol. The Iranian-Mexican couple has won the devotion of their city and recognition from Michelin and the James Beard Awards with an ambitious in-house masa program, duck carnitas tacos, and sholezard, a creamy Iranian rice pudding. Now they’re sharing Nixta’s greatest hits and plenty of homestyle recipes from their respective heritages in a new cookbook, Nixta Taqueria Presents: From Tacos to Tahdig.

Subscribe to our new show: Eye Level


Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Related Stories

Eugene Mirman Talks with Robyn Hitchcock on the Talkhouse Podcast

The comedian/Bob's Burgers star chats spacemen, criminal animals and more with the legendary psychedelic popster

1017. – Yotam Ottolenghi

November 4, 2026

Transmissions :: Derrick Bang on Vince Guaraldi

November 4, 2026

Nobody’s Ever Asked Me That: Juliette Binoche

The legendary French actress, whose new film Queen at Sea is now in theaters, goes deep on art, death, the universe and more.