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What is Armenian food similar to?
Western Armenian cuisine is very similar to Lebanese, Greek and Turkish cuisine. This is why we often find on the table all kinds of mezzes such as hummus, tabouleh, moutabal or dolmas. In Eastern Armenia, the meal usually starts with what is known as mazdoun soup (yoghurt) or flavored chicken with lots of herbs.
What is considered Armenian food?
Here are the 25 most famous Armenian foods and drinks passed down from generation to generation.
- 1 – Dolma. Dolma is a delicious Armenian food consisting of minced meat and spiced rice wrapped in vine or cabbage leaves.
- 2 – Dabgadz Banir Boerag.
- 3 – Topik.
- 4 – Lavash.
- 5 – Zhingyalov hats.
- 6 – Basturma.
- 7 – Harissa.
- 8 – Khash.
Do most Turkish-Armenians still speak Armenian?
Most Turkish-Armenians can no longer speak Armenian and are pretty much fully switched over to Turkish. Roughly 18\% of the community speaks the language, and those are mostly older people. I’m one of the around 8\% of Armenian youth in Turkey who can still speak the language fluently.
How does Armenian food in the Caucasus differ from Armenian food?
Along with a change in scenery, political system, and language, he found a vastly different kind of Armenian food from what he grew up with in Providence, Rhode Island. “It was then that I realized that Armenian food in the Caucasus was basically different from the Armenian cuisine in historical Armenia ,” he says.
What is the difference between Turkish food and Greek food?
Turks use much more yogurt in cooking. Probably one of the few things that arrived along with the Turks a thousand years ago in Anatolia. Greeks love yogurt just as much but we prefer to eat it plain, at breakfast or as a snack or even a desert with honey and walnuts. The other notable difference is that Greeks eat pretty much everything.
What is the difference between Lebanese cuisine and Greek cuisine?
Greek cuisine is very similar to Aegean region cuisine (one of 7 regions) in Turkey. Lebanese cuisine is very close to the famous cuisine of the Antioch city (one of 81 provinces), nearest Turkish city to Lebanon. Turkish cuisine has much in common with Greek cuisine. So Lebanese cuisine is only partially shared.