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[...]
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[...]
Kadayif (kadaif, kataifi) refers to shredded phyllo dough used to make a number of popular Middle Eastern desserts. Several varieties exist, including tel kadayıf, yassı kadayıf and ekmek kadayıf. This[...]
FRESNO — Both of these recipes from Fresno’s Mary Elia are featured in Breaking Bread with William Saroyan (by Janice Stevens and Pat Hunter, published in 2016 by Heliograph Publishing),[...]
LONDON — This recipe is from Falastin: A Cookbook by Sami Tamimi and Tara Wigley. Tamimi is the executive chef and founding partner of the <https://ottolenghi.co.uk/> Ottolenghi restaurant group, and[...]
