Kebab Cubano Cuban food in Florida is like Italian food in New Jersey, so nearly ubiquitous that it’s almost the native cuisine. As long-time Floridians,…
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Homemade Basterma – a Labor of Love
Not everyone is fortunate enough to have a Middle Eastern store nearby to purchase ready-to-eat favorites. Just ask reader Mario of Queensland, Australia. He requested…
Love chocolate? Head for Armenia now!
I always thought of chocolate as Armenian when I was growing up because it was probably my mother’s favorite food. “Chocolate gives you energy,” she’d…
Marian Amiraian’s Yogurt Soup (Tahnabour)
Tahnabour (Yogurt Soup) Sometimes we’re lucky enough to be in the right place, at the right time. Recently, neighbor Marian Amiraian called to say her children…
Armenian Honey Cakes
Author Jane Haddam Have you ever heard of Oldways – a nonprofit in Boston interested in helping people learn to enjoy foods related to the…
If it’s an egg, does that mean it’s breakfast?
Except for her delicious parsley-and-onion eggs, my mother usually favored a plain omelet. Nothing but beaten eggs cooked in butter until slightly brown, then flipped and…
The language of food continues to stir debate
We got yet-another thought-provoking message recently on the topic of Armenian food terms that may not be Armenian in origin. Reader Antranik posted his comments…
The passing of an Armenian lamb apostle, George Stanley Kooyumjian
It’s not often that reading an obituary makes you hungry, but the Fresno Bee newspaper’s story on the passing of Stanley George Kooyumjian was a…
Red Lentil-Potato Kufteh
Since no one, to date, has offered a recipe suggestion in our search for Sosie Catchatoorian’s request for a lentil-potato kufteh, Doug and I had…
Art appreciation comes late for this Armenian
We ran an item last summer about the late Ashod Pinajian, an artist I knew before then only as a name on a couple of…