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Monthly Archives: November 2010
From my Files: Aleppo–sublime city of vernacular beauty
Note: I wrote this article in 2005 after yet another visit to the northern Syrian city of Aleppo. I tried unsuccessfully at first to place it with an US publication. In the wake of the September 11, 2001 attacks, US … Continue reading
Posted in Armenians, Breaking Bread, Cities and towns, From My Files
Tagged Aleppine cuisine, Aleppo, closed markets, hammams, mashawi, Middle Eastern public baths, souqs, Syria, travel, Yalbougha Bath
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Baked Apples for Thanksgiving
Note: I had posted this recipe earlier. Several readers asked that I re-post it with a picture which shows the actual dessert in all its majesty. I have included general, rule-of-thumb sort of measurements because there is nothing to measure … Continue reading
Posted in Breaking Bread
Tagged Baked apples, Thanksgiving dessert, Thanksgiving recipes
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Rx for the common cold: Lemon-egg chicken soup
This soup is the mother of all chicken soups. On a late November evening, in the throes of a cold or anticipating one, you can rely it to bring you back to life. Nothing takes the place of this creamy, … Continue reading
Posted in Breaking Bread, Rx for Maladies
Tagged bottle treatment for colds, common cold, Greek lemon-egg soup, winter soups
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Secret threads…
~~When Araxi Astardjian Oshagan, my maternal grandmother, announced in that gentle but patrician voice of hers, that she was going to start learning English, it seemed an improbable project. Our grandmother, the quintessential example of a woman who was growing … Continue reading
White bean Plaki (as in plucky)
First, the name: Is plaki a stew with fish or meat, or is it, as my grandmother used the word, the white bean stew that, over the years, she developed to something near-perfection? My friends I. and T., both of … Continue reading
Rx for the two of us…
For my mother, Anahid, who died on November 4, 2005 in Amman, Jordan–these words, written in her rebellious, intelligent, quirky spirit. Fragment from my mother’s scarabé embroidery Here’s the scene. You’re gathered around a festive dining table. There’s a marvelous … Continue reading
Posted in Aging, well enough, Breaking Bread, Rx for Maladies, Those we Love
Tagged aging, ailments, Amman, Anahid Oshagan, Anahid Voskeritchian, Jordan
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The Decades of Carlos
It does not take much endurance to watch the five-and-half hours of Olivier Assayas’ uncut, original version of Carlos. In fact, I watched every minute of it (well, almost every minute of it) with bated breath and alert eyes and … Continue reading
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