Armenian Delicacies

[disksoleil]

Greetings all,

I love cooking dishes from all countries,
so far ive tried:
Spanish
Mexican
Italian
Chinese
Malay
Thai
Greek
Turkish


dishes.


How about opening up a thread for you guys to post Armenian recipes that i could try?

I really would like to cook some and try...

[disksoleil]

hey guys, do not tell me the Armenian Cuisine does not exist

or maybe Armenian recipes are top secret or is it because you guys do not know how to cook?

[Anonymouse]

I don't cook anything, thus I am of no use.

Yes cuisine exists, it's just I'm not an authority on how to make anything.

I can barely make toast.

[disksoleil]

[hey anony, thanks for posting something other than the "G" word (no i am not going to mention it in this thread, no!!)]


it is a wonder that you can at least make some toast as a girl i should be ashamed of myself i suppose cos until i left my family home i did not even know how to make a toast... now i can cook good stuff...

i guess it is all my mum's fault, cos she would never like me nor my elder sister to help house work nor cooking, even at dinner table she would stuff things into our mouth like babies


well until i learned how to cook, i faced the danger of becoming an obese due to eating in Mc Donalds ops:

(my mum still feeds my elder sister )

hey by the way i saw in the cookbooks that we have similiar foods if not identical ( some identical ones are as follows: lahmacun, dolma, pilav, borek)

i would like to know what other stuffs you guys have, other than those up there...)

i would like to go and try in a restaurant but i guess theres no Armenian restaurant in here, although theres an Armenian street and plenty of churches.


maybe one day someone will come and open up one restaurant, it would do good business, here people have this ideology "Do not Eat to live, Live to Eat!" and also, the Armenian street is in the heart of the city there are a lot of good quality restaurants and cafes around and theres a huge tourist flow...

there are lotsa Turkish restaurants and the owners are gonna be rich! but it is very expensive i never eat in some of them ( a kebab roll about 30 bucks)

[Emil]

(my mum still feeds my elder sister )

Uhhhhhhh, I find that very disturbing. Does she still bathe you 2 also? I bet she does your laundry. Maybe she even dresses you in the morning, and tells you goodnight stories.

Emil

[jahannam]

hey by the way i saw in the cookbooks that we have similiar foods if not identical ( some identical ones are as follows: lahmacun, dolma, pilav, borek)

Lahmacun = 100% Arabic cuisine
dolma = turkish
pilav = persian
borek = middle eastern
most Armenians cook and/or eat those dishes, but they also cook Pizza, Pasta, kung pao chicken and fajitas...
get over it... Turkish and Armenian cultures are neither "similar" nor "identical"

[Anonymouse]

A cultural anthropologist would disagree, there are similarities even though you will not agree, history doesn't work that way, we are all influenced by one another especially geographic neighbors.

[TJ]

why are you so damn irritating anonymous.

By the way i completely agree with you jahannam

[Anonymouse]

Irritating you say?

Because I do not let my emotional side blind me from historical or anthropoligical accuracy?

You see, I too can be a blind, and ignore facts and the process of history and how it works, but for the life me, I cannot, as I am trying to be as objective in my analysis and method of gaining knowledge.

If I allow myself to get blinded, I will make erronous and invalid reasoning and reside with fallacious logic and knowledge.

I am sorry you do not like the way history works, but history is a process, not a single point in time, hence the term "history" as it is a series that never ends. Armenians have lived under Turks for centuries and thus have been in contact with them and both cultures share similarities whether you may like it or not. It is no different than when Armenians lived under Persians or Romans or the Sasanids, etc. Unless Armenians were strictly isolated island peoples then I can see they would have no similarities in culture but they are not.

That is the way history goes, I cannot change it, even if you do not like it.

That doesn't mean that I like the Turkish government, or any other government for that matter. That doesn't excuse the crimes perpetrated against Armenians or anyone else.

There is intellectual integrity and knowledge that shouldn't be decided by our emotional sides.

[Anonymouse]

P.S. Tigran I love your nose.

It's just begging for me to peel the potatoe.