Barbara Ghazarian

“’No one knows for certain whether lahmacun’s roots lie in Armenia, Turkey, or elsewhere in the Middle East. The race to find where these ancient foods originated is not fruitful[...]

“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[...]