My obsession with Armenian food stems from my Aunt Mary and Uncle Jack Sherijian’s restaurant, The Peach Tree. I loved going there as a child and (like to many Fresnans at the time) always started with the lentil soup. Mary passed away in December of 2021. During our...
These are often marketed as pinwheels or caravan sandwiches; Armenians call them Aram sandwiches. And here in Fresno, we refer to them as Hye Rollers. Made with softened lahvosh bread and your choice of fillings, these spiral sandwiches are a real treat, savory or...
This piece originally appeared on my Instagram page (@julsarmeniankitchen) in 2022. Before my parents got married, their church required a counseling session with the reverend, or Badveli, as we called him. “There’s more than one way to make pilaf” was the key...
I wrote this in 2017 for my now-retired blog, The Stranger in Your Kitchen, about an Armenian porridge called “keshkeg,” where I conflated the phonetics of “keg” in with the English word “gag,” while reflecting on the state of American politics at the time. There’s a...