At the end of May a reader commented on our post about Bulgur Pilaf – Dikranagerdtsi-style: She wrote: “Hi…my mother came from Adpapazar… I wonder if…
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Did you see this? Anthony Bourdain on Armenian food
Butter-basted Baby Sparrow Somehow, this got past me. I thought I saw the episode of Anthony Bourdain’s Travel Channel show that featured Lebanon, but…
Liana Aghajanian shares enthusiasm for Armenian food and for journalism
For thirty-some years, I was a journalist of the old school. I worked in crowded, smoke-filled newsrooms, shouting into the telephone over the clatter of…
Snow Blind: A story retold for the digital age
This has been a wild year for me so far. It’s a long story, but I’ve had to leave Robyn alone in the kitchen and…
A day of sadness and hope
Easter Lilies – Google image As a kid, I always found Easter to be a confounding holiday. I couldn’t reconcile the joy of chocolate bunnies…
A fun Armenian sing-along!
What could be more fun than singing about fruit and vegetables? OK, we don’t do that very often — but the fruit and vegetables at…
The Greedy Sparrow
We’re excited to share the news about a new book by our gifted correspondent and friend, Lucine Kasbarian. It’s called The Greedy Sparrow: An Armenian…
A legacy of migration: Armenian food with an Indian twist
A friend recently shared this video from the Web site of IBN, CNN’s partner in India. It’s an extended report on Armenian food in Kolkata…
Armenians were toasting history before it was history
More fascinating discoveries just keep on emerging from caves in Armenia. Researchers at UCLA and Oxford have confirmed that what archaeologists suspected of being…
How long do leftovers last? 5,900 years may be stretching things
Every day must seem like Christmas morning for archaeologists in Armenia. Recent discoveries include the world’s oldest shoe, the world’s oldest human brain and the…