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Trchnak is the CAIA blog, featuring interesting stories, traditional recipes, cultural and historical items, anecdotes from our daily life at Hayashen, stories from our members and other regular features.
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What is Armenian Food?
Read an excellent blog post talking about Armenian Cuisine, written by Ed Stambollouian – an amateur food writer and passionate home cook, published on his website www.londoncooking.co.uk See the excerpt below and click here to read the...
The Dark Years in Cartoons
See a selection of post-Soviet cartoons from Armenia, picked by our volunteer Jivan Cheterian
Ատամհատիկ | Atamhatik
Story of one tooth…
Images of Ottoman Empire from the Pierre de Gigord Collection
See a selection of some fascinating photographs here…
Ամենայն հայոց որբերի հայրիկ Թումանյանը
Փետրվարի 19-ին Հովհաննես Թումանյանի ծննդյան օրն է եւ Ամենայն հայոց բանաստեղծի 150-ամյակը՝ ՅՈՒՆԵՍԿՕ-ի մակարդակով: Թումանյանն այն եզակի գործիչներից է, ում գրական հարստությունը նույնքան անժխտելիորեն բացառիկ է ու մեծ, որքան նրա մարդկային կերպարը:
A sweet story from Cork
When one of our kind clients gave us a beautiful bright yellow box of Turkish Delight and the paper inside the box said ‘Armenian Delight’, we got curious. Here is the story of confectionery maker, reproduced with THE LOWER GLANMIRE ROAD, CORK CITY, IRELAND blog’s kind permission
Our Volunteers: Zora
Our volunteer Zora Karanfilian in his own words
Recipe of the month: Dolma
Learn how to make this delicious dish
Taniel: a new arthouse film about Varoujan
Garo Berberian is an award-winning filmmaker and a CAIA member, whose arthouse short film Taniel, narrated by Sean Bean, is currently having a successful run in the festival circuit