“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[...]
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[...]
