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Posts tagged Armenian cooking
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…
The Perfect Pilaf (video!)
Confession: I’m a pot peeker. At least, I used to be. For many years, my pilaf-making was hampered by my natural curiosity as well as…
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…
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…
Happy New Year To All!
For Armenians in America, New Year’s Day is a joyously unambiguous holiday. Most of us celebrated Western Christmas on Dec. 25, but with an asterisk:…
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…