Armenian cooking — the culinary tradition of one of the world's oldest civilisations (the Armenian Kingdom of Urartu dates to the 9th century BCE) — carries the specific weight of the Armenian Genocide (1915–1923), in which 1–1.5 million Armenians were systematically killed by the Ottoman government and the survivors dispersed across the globe. The Armenian diaspora (with large communities in France, the US, Lebanon, and Syria) maintained the culinary tradition as one of the primary vehicles of cultural identity — the same mechanism documented in the Jewish, Palestinian, and African diaspora food traditions.
The Armenian culinary tradition.
BURMESE + CAMBODIAN + LAOTIAN + SOUTH CAUCASUS