For years, I’ve eyed my mother’s recipe cabinet longingly. Brimming with books slung together in no particular rhyme or reason, it occupies two giant floor cupboards in my parents’ kitchen. I have hoped to one day muster up the patience to give it a thorough cleaning. Last September, I was in between jobs. I had some down time.
Having come to the United States as a refugee from Soviet Armenia in the seventies, my mother’s journey of assimilation into American culture has required a gr
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Unfortunately, our traditional foods have been stolen by the Turks and are now passing them off as “Turkish Cuisine”. This was possible of course due to the success of the Armenian Genocide, and now the artificially large nation they are occupying as a result of that Genocide combined with their sheer numbers makes it hard to keep their lies in check. To make matters worse, they have ignorant western “scholars” on their side pushing their cultural fairy tales. Even more difficult, many old Armenian names for our dishes have been lost as a result of most Armenians in the Ottoman empire speaking only the language of the empire, Turkish. Even though I am certain that with proper research, much of Turkish words can be shown to be of Armenian origin.
Up til now, our scholars, researchers and academics have ignored this field of study to the detriment of our culture and history. It’s quite sad, really. The western ignorant masses have no desire to hear about what is stolen from where, as they would only care about what they are being fed. I wish that the academics and scholars in Armenia would establish some kind of cultural research union to establish all our historic cultural foods from every province of our historic country, and to specifically expose all the fraud and lies from Turkey and Azerbaijan regarding their so-called cuisines.
When two women get together they say “Oh you have this in your culture, how nice I have something very similar in my culture.” These recipes were shared between neighbors, they are not Turkish or Armenian, but Ottoman. The only one lying is you, to a Diaspora too ignorant of their own history to do anything but follow blindly the Piper to War (and give their American money to the Righteous Cause no doubt). You are disgusting.