After posting Sara Raymond’s family recipe for Kourabia, I thought it only fair to share my own recipe with you. The Armenian Kitchen‘s Kourabia My recipe does…
Koorabia – A Christmas Cookie Favorite
Reader Sara Raymond wrote recently when she noticed we didn’t have a Koorabia (Kourabia) cookie recipe on our website. She noted that it simply wouldn’t be…
Scones with an Armenian Twist
Apricot-Pistachio Scones The best scones Doug and I ever ate were the ones we had in London about 10 years ago. For about 50 cents…
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…
Want to be healthy as well as calm? Eat like an Armenian!
It’s not hard to imagine that Americans were a bit jittery in April 1918. The world was at war, and now the United States was…
In our house, Thanksgiving was an Armenian holiday — and so were all the rest
Kalajian dinner party, 1960s Like any other American family’s table, ours overflowed on Thanksgiving — and a golden-brown turkey was always the centerpiece. But my…
Holiday Season 2010- Pomegranate-Prosecco Cocktail
Pomegranate-Prosecco Cocktail The countdown has begun. Christmas decorations have been popping up in stores since October – a little ridiculous, if you ask me! Black…
The Portable Armenian Kitchen: A 19th Century Spoon Solution
I love digging into the world of digital archives. It’s like archaeology for those of us who don’t want to leave our seats. Today’s discovery…
Science is still peppering us with salt questions
Armenians love salt, maybe a little too much. Or maybe not. We inherited the Old World tradition of heavily salting our food to preserve it….