A veteran cookbook author returns to her delicious culinary heritage in this savory and passionate recipe collection. Victoria Jenanyan Wise grew up with the flavors, scents, and seasonings of Armenian cooking—a cuisine that combines Mediterranean tastes with Persian, Arabic, and Russian accents. In her first Armenian cookbook, Wise presents traditional favorites and inspired contemporary variations.
The author takes us on a comprehensive tour of the typical Armenian pantry, with its nuts, seeds, herbs, spices, fragrant extracts, and wealth of fresh ingredients. Each chapter begins with advice and commentary on essentials, such as fresh yogurt, starters (maza), breads, salads, pilafs, meatballs and other meat, fish and vegetable dishes as well as sweets. Also included is a chapter on the Armenian people and its homeland.
Recipes include:
- Lavosh, Armenian pizzas, and other savory breads
- Shish kebab, moussaka, and other lamb dishes
- Baked and roast chicken prepared with yogurt, dill, turmeric, and pomegranate
- Grilled mackerel with lemon and dill
- Red snapper stew with tomato and artichokes
- Stuffed vegetables (dolmas) and stuffed vine leaves
- Baklava and other filo-pastry sweets
- Lemon yogurt cake, yogurt panna cotta with cherry sauce
- Almond and rice-flour pudding with toasted almond slices
This authentic and warm-hearted cookbook will be met by a ready audience of Armenians, as well as lovers of Greek, Turkish, Mediterranean, and Middle Eastern cuisines, as well as other culinary adventurers.
C O N T E N T S:
Introduction
– “The Armenian Table, from Ararat to America and Me”
The Armenian Cupboard
Yogurt: Essential and Versatile
The Armenian Maza Table
Breads and Savory Pastries
Salads: Old World and New
“Meat”balls: Kufta
Lamb and Other Meats
Poultry, Game, and Eggs
Fish and Seafood
Vegetables: Roasted, Stewed, Stuffed
Pilafs
Sweets
Index
About the Author
Victoria Jenanyan Wise is the author of fourteen cookbooks, including the bestselling The Well-Filled Tortilla (1990; coauthored with Susanna Hoffman); The Gardeners’ Community Cookbook (1999); The Pressure Cooker Gourmet (2004); and, most recently, Bold: A Cookbook of Big Flavors (2013). She lives in Oakland, California, with her husband, the cinematographer Rick Wise, who shot the food photographs for the cover of this book. Her website is www.wisekitchen.com
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