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Pumpkin for the new year
Recorded by Archive demonstration · Anahit Petrosian · Yerevan · Source language: Armenian
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Anahit Petrosian’s ghapama is a pumpkin that has become a bowl. Rice, dried fruit, honey, butter, a little cinnamon. In Yerevan it comes to the new-year table whole, then is opened so the steam stands up like a blessing nobody wants to name too loudly.
She bakes lavash the day before, slapped to the tannur wall, thin enough to fold around herbs. The bread is for every day. The pumpkin is for the day the year turns.
A Georgian guest once said the stuffing was a cousin of something at home. Anahit said: then sit, and we will see how close.
Original: Նստիր, կտեսնենք որքան մոտ ենք.
Transliteration · Nstir, ktesnenk vorkan mot enk.
Original: Armenian
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GhapamaRelated person · Recorded connection
Anahit PetrosianSame family · Recorded connection
PetrosianShared place · Recorded connection
ԵրևանRelated oral history · Recorded connection
The thin bread of the tannur
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