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...
I wrote this in July 2019, during my Armenian home cooking apprenticeship with the Alliance for California Traditional Arts as a tribute to my mentor’s late husband, Raffi Bedrossian. Alliance for California Traditional Arts (ACTA) Apprenticeship Program It was...
A reflection on childhood meals at The Peach Tree, my Uncle Jack and Aunt Mary Shirejian’s iconic Fresno Armenian restaurant. I arrived at Zee’s home in early January, eager to begin my Alliance for California Traditional Arts apprenticeship and quickly deflated when...
