Welcome to Our Kitchen!
Hi, we are Jessica and Navid, the dynamic duo behind The Parsa Kitchen (previously Devoted Existence). We are a Persian/American husband & wife team that enjoys sharing recipes that nourish your soul. Our passion is to invite people of all walks of life to come together in the kitchen and discover the joy of cooking.
Navid grew up in Iran and Jessica grew up in Texas. This meant much about their upbringings were radically different, but one thing that they had in common was their love of food.
Food is even the reason the two met. Jessica ran a food blog (Devoted Existence) where she posted healthy recipes. She had accidentally linked the Instagram page to her Bumble account and Navid fell in love at first sight…with her or the food, we’ll never know. Their first date was in January of 2020, right before the world shut down. They spent the entire year of quarantine together cooking breakfast, lunch and dinner every single day.
Jessica continued to blog healthy recipes but as time went on, Navid became more and more involved. His photography and videography skills took her page to the next level and it eventually became no longer hers, but theirs. In 2024, they made the decision to change the name to The Parsa Kitchen to better reflect the major changes that had happened to the page.
The Parsa Kitchen is a place for recipes that nourish your soul – this comes from the Persian saying “Nooshé Jān,” which is similar to the phrase Bon Appétit, but directly translates to ‘May It Nourish Your Soul.’ We hope that each and every recipe we share leaves you feeling deeply nourished, both in body and in soul.
