An enduring feature of Armenian life, picnics have been a way to share traditions of food, storytelling, music, and dance, keeping the culture vibrant.
Every year, the many ethnic groups living in Nou Barris, Barcelona, gather to combine the ingredients of a new symbolic stew.
In just a few years around the 2000s, over a million people from all around the world arrived in Catalonia—and with them, they brought their languages.
How a suburb of Beirut, Lebanon, became a safe haven for Armenians forced to create a home away from home.
A woman recalls profitable peddling herbal remedies across Catalonia to preserve the traditional lifestyle of their valley.
Through dance we nurture our Armenian identity, connecting communities around the world.
It was a clear and quiet autumn morning when we visited Ruben and Karen during our fieldwork visit for this summer’s Folklife Festival Marketplace.
One English-language cookbook suggests that tortillas make a good substitute for lavash. They don’t.
A recipe for the Armenian soup called khash, at its most basic, goes something like this: simmer cows’ hooves overnight. Serve.
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