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Food gathers the family; family gathers the food.
Along the Ebro River Delta, cooks gather crab, rockfish, conger eel, and mantis shrimp—all just to produce the seafood stock for cuttlefish rossejat.
The cooks at Pillars Jussà take the shoulder of a Xisqueta lamb and pair it with the deeply sweet flavors of honey and port wine.
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.
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.
I’m no wine snob, but when I was invited to Armenia to report a story for the Smithsonian’s Sidedoor podcast, I said cheers and booked my ticket.
The New Year marks the end of the holiday season in the United States, but in Armenia they are just getting started.
Ray Slizewski worked to create dishes that would make the crew feel right at home—even if that meant serving alligator tails or yak meat.
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