HyeFoodGuy

Armenian food is very delicious, but for international travelers there can be a problem ... loots! My experience is that the most suspect culprit is the kebabs sold by street vendors and restaurants. Ground meat is risky. I wrote about my loots sufferings at Armenian Food Blog. My Hye friends and family gave me pomegranate juice, mint-leaf tea, plain boiled rice, but I was still making "runs" to the bathroom. But later I found out that American food had a similar effect on Armenians. So what are the traditional Armenian cures for "the trots" that work? HyeFoodGuy "Food is the portal to Armenia's past and present-day culture." Read about it in the new book ARMENIAN FOOD: FACT, FICTION & FOLKLORE.

If we've encouraged you to read another book, Sip, then our efforts have not been in vain. Check out "Sexy Sarik & Khorovats Barbecue" at our blog, Armenian Food Blog. Anush! HyeFoodGuy ARMENIAN FOOD: FACT, FICTION & FOLKLORE

Thanks for the welcome, Azat. I've been reading HyeForum for a long time, so I'm glad to contribute something here. You can order the book online at Armenian Food - Lulu.com or Amazon, Barnes and Nobles, etc. If you don't want to purchase online, you can order it at most bookstores. The ISBN number for the book is 1411698659. The big bookstore chains won't stock books from small publishers like ours, but they should order it at no extra charge. For Hayestansi, the first edition is sold in Yerevan at the ArtBridge Cafe, the Tourist Information Center, and I know at least one trustworthy Vernissage book dealer is authorized to sell it. ArmeniaNow did a review of the first edition: ArmeniaNow.com - Book Review of ARMENIAN FOOD Please let us know how you like the book. We had great fun writing it, and we tried to make it fun to read, too. It's not some stuffy academic dissertation. And we made some pretty amazing discoveries about Armenia's history and cuisine. Anush lini!

Armenia sure does have its own cuisine. My wife, Irina Petrosian, and I just finished writing the second edition of a book about this very subject. It's called ARMENIAN FOOD: FACT, FICTION & FOLKLORE. We spent most of last year doing research and travelling all over Hayastan to write the first edition, which was published in Yerevan late last year. Now we've got the made-in-the-USA edition finished and published. May it be accepted! It's not a cookbook. It's the story of Armenian history, culture, folklore and legends, told through the food that was and is eaten IN Armenia. We had lots of fun doing the book project, and we met many wonderful people and colorful characters while we were living in Armenia. Yes, Greeks and Georgians and lots of other countries have equivalents of Armenian dishes, but what makes Armenian food unique is the stories behind the dishes. Now that I'm in the US, I would give anything for some delicious Lori cheese or my dear Armenian mother-in-law's khashlama. Like we wrote in our book, food here in the US just doesn't have that "ham u hot" that it does in Hayastan! Here's the cover of the new edition: http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7720/3099/400/Cover_1.0.jpg Armenian Food: Fact, Fiction & Folklore You can check out Irina's blog at Armenian Food. There she and I will tell some of the stories we couldn't fit in the printed editions, and about how we wrote the book. We're "hungry" for any comments, so please stop by sometime.