04/05/2021
Happy Easter to everyone who celebrates❗
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Did you know that Armenia is considered to be the first nation to have adopted Christianity as the state religion in 301AD?
Did you also know that you can see the Biblical Mount Ararat (where Noah's Ark believed to have rested) from almost any high point in Armenia's capital Yerevan (Ararat is within Turkey's borders).
Naturally Easter has a special place in Armenian culture and there are numerous customs and traditions around it. Easter dinner is an art of its own and the pictures of our today's table offer a sample of a typical Armenian Easter dinner: rice pilaf with fried Lavash bread and slightly cooked dried fruit, lots of greens especially tarragon, fish, vegetarian sarma - legumes wrapped in cabbage leaves, cheese, butter, radish, Georgian Khachapoori and of course Gata and Kulich (Russian-inspired Easter bread). The dyed egg-fighting - cracking eggs against each other - and then consuming those eggs wrapped with butter, salt-pepper, and tarragon in Lavash bread is the highlight of the dinner :)
