From Christine Vartanian Datian

Christine Vartanian Datian

Christine Datian, a Fresno native, is a copywriter and technical writer who has been published in Sunset and Cooking Light Magazines for over a decade. Christine is a graduate of California State University, Fresno (CSUF) with a Master of Arts Degree in Mass Communications. She attributes her accomplishments and interests in writing and creating new recipes to her mother Alice, and her late grandmother, Mrs. Peppy Sarkisian, a native of Adana, Turkey.

SAN FRANCISCO — “George Mardikian (1903-1977) channeled the pain and hunger from his survival of the Armenian Genocide: He went from a dishwasher to a world-famous San Francisco restaurant owner[...]

This Greek chicken kokkinisto, or stewed chicken in a rich tomato sauce, served with homemade French fries is from the Mia Kouppa food blog. “Blogging since 2016, we have published[...]

Memories and photos from author Dawn Essegian Lajeunesse SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. — “I grew up in the 1950s. I had an Armenian last name, and we attended the Armenian church[...]

“After seeing Armenia from the Georgian border in 1989, Paula Wolfert wanted to travel to the country, but conflicts in the region prevented her. Instead, she collected Armenian cookbooks, especially[...]

“Houshamadyan is non-profit association founded in Berlin, Germany, in 2010. It has a basic mission: to reconstruct and preserve the memory of Armenian life in the Ottoman Empire through research.[...]

“Serious Eats writes, “Yalanchi sarma, or just ‘yalanchi,’ is the Armenian version of vegetarian stuffed grape leaves. ‘Sarma’ means wrapped in Turkish, while ‘yalanchi’ means ‘liar,’ a humorous reference to[...]

FRESNO — The Armenian Museum of Fresno is hosting a dual exhibition, “Fresno Armenians: 50 Years Ago,” by Robby Antoyan, along with the sound installation, “From the Fields of Fresno”[...]

In The New Book of Middle Eastern Food Claudia Roden, Egyptian-born British cookbook writer and cultural anthropologist of Sephardi/Mizrahi descent, describes baba ghanoush as “exciting and vulgarly seductive” — possibly[...]

“I love a good sheet pan meal. Not only is it less dishes for me to wash, but they are versatile, and family-friendly. This sheet pan salmon recipe is just[...]

REEDLEY, Calif. — “Apriums are a combination of apricots and plums, with more apricot than plum. While most apriums will taste mainly just of apricot, our unique varieties have hints[...]

(Fresno’s Mary Ekmalian is the current Home Guild President at the California Armenian Home. Here are excerpts of a story from April 19, 2009 published in The Fresno Bee, written[...]