How Armenia’s Diaspora is Spicing Up its Cuisine
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- Опубліковано 15 чер 2024
- Today, more Armenians live outside Armenia than within it. Many surviving families of the 1915 Armenian genocide found refuge in countries all over the world. But in recent years, Armenians have again had to flee conflict in places like Syria. Some are now returning to Armenia and spicing up its cuisine with flavors they acquired over generations away from their homeland.
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loved seeing this, very similar food, culture and history like the Assyrians, Armenians are like brothers and sister to us Assyrians
But speaking Arabic n mixing Arabic food.
@@mohammedoharc as in brothers in Christianity
@@avel3470 oh i didn’t know Arabs couldn’t be christians. 🥱
@@mohammedoharc what's your point
@@ArthaxtaDaVince777 depends which comment we talkin bout. Christains can be Arab.
The absolute best thing about Worcester, Massachusetts, was the Armenian restaurants. The only thing that I would go back for, as well.
Who cares your opinion.
@@YALQUZAQ_AZ jealous tvrk
@@YALQUZAQ_AZ Why do you have to be so rude?
@@westendgirl444 I am not rude
@@westendgirl444 because he is an azeri turk
كل الحب ل اخواتنا الأرمن في المهجر وفي وطنهم الأم🙏 🇦🇲 Ողջ սերն ու հարգանքը հայերի հանդեպ իրենց հայրենիքում և հայրենիքից դուրս՝ արաբից💟
Western Armenian food is different from Eastern Armenian. My ancestors came from Urfa, in Turkey. We are used to very spicy food. Many Armenians were from Aintab, Urfa, and all over present day Eastern Turkey. The food is similar to Syrian cuisine along the southern border of Turkey. My surviving family fled across the border from Urfa to Aleppo. The food was pretty much the same.
Exactly. Genuine Armenian cuisine contains a lot of spices. Under the USSR, many of those recipes were lost and changed due to the situation of those times 😞
Hatay is an occupied Syrian province.
@@madoleenc1433 No, Antakya is a city that belongs to Turkey
Save your country first
As Armenian fron Aleppo, each ethnicity in Aleppo had a bit different cuisine and that was the beauty of it. Armenians in Aleppo had a special cuisine that was famous in Syria itself to be special. I love seeing it added to the culture in Armenia like it should. Thanks for sharing!
as Persian Armenian i got big respect for Syrian Armenians they hard working people, most of them own businesses in LA , resturants , liquor shops etc...
And Numetal bands
@@kocholawis1851 daron is Iraqi, serj is Lebanese, shavo from Armenia, John I'm not sure.
@@ArthaxtaDaVince777 All 4 are Armenian, Serj and Daron were born in Lebanon
May Astvats bless both Syrians and Armenians
Thank you Vice TV for choosing Armenians and Armenia, you brought tears to my eyes
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@@YALQUZAQ_AZ 🤣
Don’t forget to thank the Arabs who gave these ppl somewhere to live
@Tigran Hakobyan you are very welcome.
Im Turkish i love armenia theyr our brothers and sisters, what Turkey did in the past is inexcusable this needs to be acknowledged
@ SUDAPPY VLOGS Yea not it was definitely the turks
@ SUDAPPY VLOGS Christian crusades ? People being accused of witchcraft being burned by the church ? Christianity has done worse things to humanity and this is definitelyt not religion
Love turks but after the war some of them support Azerbaijan fully and wish us the worst
@@cypy3264 some? Most haha alot of them is the government more than anything
Love seeing this.
Such a wonderful video! Thank you! Now I want to go to Dilijan and I’ll definitely visit Halep shop! My best friend lived in Syria for many years. She was so happy there! TY to Syrian ppl for their kindness, culture and for helping so many Armenians!
Crazy how well the journalist Mathew’s knows Arabic so fluently salute to Vice
Does he have any Syrian origins?
Beautiful and inspiring video ❤️ from Canada 🇨🇦
I need Armenian food in my life rn 😍
thank you so much for reporting on countries most people gloss over, major respect
I think when that lady says that they don't use many spices in Armenia, she's referring Only to Armenians that live in Armenia. I believe they stopped using many spices because they were not available during the USSR and therefore did what they could with limited spices and russianized the cuisine. But all Armenians from Western Armenia are using a lot of spices their food.
My great grandfather was an orphaned kid who ended up in iraq. Its Unfortunate what happened to my people. Everything was forced upon them, food, religion and language.
Thank you to Syria for saving and sheltering Armenians during the genocide in 1915!❤️
I am Azerbaijani and like how the cultures have something in common. Wish we were fighting in creating, cooking, building and doing any better things rather than in war arenas.
Totally agree with you. When I first saw the list of soldiers who died in the 2020 war, my heart sank. Born in 2000, 2001, 1999 even 2022, these kids who were younger than me, died for their country. Its sad, but if not them, who will protect Artsakh? That's when I truly realized the kind of privilege I have living in the West....
Tell that to your dictatorship.
Well, normal people know how dirty and selfish politicians are. Doesn't matter whether it is Azerbaijan, its neighbor or any western country there is dictatorship everywhere. If you will understand what democracy is in its pure containment you will get what Im talking about. There is no possible way making peace all over the world without supporting and putting normal people in the power, not the ones introduced and promoted by parties or someone else. Peace ☮️
@@asgae6374 democracy is the greatest lie ever told. It does not exist anywhere. Wake up.
As for governments: yes, they are all corrupt but mine didn’t teach me to see Turks/Azeris as not human like they do to their kindergarteners.
I still see them as human: but the most evil and disgusting that ever existed. Taxem dranc. Azgovi.
I'm sorry to say this but we don't have anything in Common. You Azerbaijanis have no history or culture, so nothing is in common. We are maximum 12 million people around the world and the things we have, we created, invented, the things we are Good at sports for a small country with 12 million people is huge achievement, not even turkey and azeri combined have it.
Thank you for such an incredible video!
Love from an Armenian Diasporan 🇦🇲❤️
Thank you Vice! Armenia is going through political hardships and the country has never been this divided. Watching something positive is nice..
love to our armenian brothers and sisters from India 🇮🇳 🇦🇲
Likewise I can’t tell you how grateful Armenians are to India for helping us after the Karabagh war by sending weapons to Armenia when we were left defenseless with no other country selling us weapons. Its not surprising as our two peoples have a long history together with Indian communities in Armenia since ancient times and likewise Armenian communities in India which were the only foreigners trusted to freely travel anywhere in India free of taxes so this relationship is only natural and nothing new. In our more vulnerable and desperate time India of all countries stood by our side we will forever be grateful 🇮🇳 🇦🇲
Indeed, I love the new flavors our Syrian & Lebanese Armenians bring to Armenia. My favorite Restaurant is Rehan in Yerevan. I will defined try Tigrans Restaurant (Halep) in Dilijan ❤️🙏.
Great to know that coming from place which exports 70-75% of all world spices, I congratulate you all for having created such fusions without losing your own roots. Love from India, hope the tensions between Armenia and Azerbaijan is significantly reduced if not obliterated completely. I would also be able to love Armenian food with all those spices, because Arab and Persian food is kind of bland for us.
Much love to armenia and armenian people from iran
Kosomkon
Armenian dishes are some of the tastiest, healthiest and full of variety. My parents are from Lebanon but we made food that goes back to our ancestors in western Armenia. It's a shame that in Armenia they dont use as much spices, weve always been great middlemen and traders. I think 70 years of Soviet rule brought Russian influences but gradually that is changing. More Armenians are using spices and drinking wine instead of liquor.
I really really want to try those food.
Armenians come from such a tiny country, but man, they’ve got a huge footprint in the world. They can cook their asses off. And they sure do have some pretty women!!
Halo
We don't come from a small country, we were made into a small country as the result of the genocide. The Armenian highlands are vast.
@@Hh-op5vi Armenians are and will remain tiny but dream big. The dreams of larger Armenia is what made then small. And it still continues. Karabakh = Azerbaijan.
@@Hh-op5vi uhhh yeah…sure man.
@@SsemTexx I wasn't even trying to insinuate nationalism. I'm saying many Armenians are from many areas referred to as the Armenian highlands.
Thank you for sharing and educating us about Armenia, it’s beautiful people and the sad history
Yes, the history is very sad. There's too much suffering in this world, it's just so unfair.
We don't have eyes on someone's territory. We just liberated our lands
@@YALQUZAQ_AZ your land is in Altai so go back there barbarians.
Armenian food is AMAZING!
It LOOKS amazing !
They stole everything from the Turks. It’s 1:1 the same
They don’t have food at all !! Is Syrian and Persian they copy those 2 countries food
@@Damian-lr3mt Look how old our story is Armenia’s capital is older than Rome, don’t claim garbage.
@@krissoez9268 you guys don’t have food every Armenian I ever met tells me the samething is not me making it up !! Kabab is from Turkey and Persian !!! You guys obviously eat it just how we eat Italian food In America just how we eat Indian food in America just how we eat Mexican food in America just how we eat china people in America ! So plz check your history who cares how old is your small little Country if no one even knows about it
Great video. I'm Armenian born in Aleppo.
Respect from Hungary
Amazing story like usual.
Great video thank you!
My Western Armenian ancestors ended up in the US after initially resettling about 75 miles from their pre-Genocide home across the Syrian border in Aleppo. What this video leaves out is the impact of Soviet repression on Eastern Armenian food. What I have always heard within the Armenian community is that the lack of spices, the lack of familiarity with Levantine cuisine, etc is a result of the USSR and its impact on culinary culture. So it's not even that Armenian food has transformed in the diaspora but ironically that Eastern Armenian cuisine was unfortunately heavily impacted by Soviet rule and the limits on what ingredients were available. Armenians have been in the Levant, the Arabian peninsula, Persia, what is today Turkey, and the Caucuses for at least 2,000 years and are an indigenous people of west Asia!
i am sitting here just swallowing my saliva after watching all this delicious food.
You may a dog then
I was hoping Los Angeles would be mentioned in this. It has the largest Armenian population outside of Armenia in the world
Kardashian nation
And that's why I love vice
Aleen is wrong, Armenians do actually use a lot of different spices. Even our unique cultural foods are rich in flavor and spices.
I love cross pollination of cultures, especially foods, herbs and spices. It just makes the world a better place overall
Looks so delicious !
Armenian food is just heavenly!
Please bring Armenian food to Detroit
My friend is Armenian, and the cooking his family makes is something I dream of.
Move to LA
And coastal NC! 🤤
There are a lot of Armenians working in LA. I've met so many of them
That’s Turkish food. They copied it
1:35 you've just triggered Erdogan and millions of Turks
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I'm an Armenian whose parents are from the modern republic but our ancestors go back to northwestern Iran and Eastern Turkey. The thing is, we don't really consider most of these Arabic. Armenians were always neighbors with Arabs, even before the genocide, so we consider it Ottoman influence that spans even further back than this misconception that most likely roots during the Russianification of the Soviet union.
Cher had contributed her dark complexion to her mother’s supposedly Cherokee blood. I could tell by looking at her, that she didn’t have native DNA. It was her mysterious father who turn out to be Armenian.
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@@grapesurgeon ok
@Lewis C yes I get that too from both whites and blacks. Because I am native too. I am so tired of them asking am I native. Which happens often.
Much love to my Armenian brothers and sisters!
Eastern Armenian food has also been heavily influenced by Russia as we were part of the USSR we all ate the same things, things that were easily grown and distributed throughout the USSR so noting exotic or exciting, meanwhile Armenians living outside Armenia kept their traditions and added to them.
looks delicious!
whats the name of the place? first one
Kardashian
It’s in Dilijan
thanks broskis
Looks really good. Love to the Armenian people from America! 🇺🇸❤🇦🇲
Armenia is a puppet of Russia
@@YALQUZAQ_AZ If that's the case, then I'm sorry to hear. Armenia shouldn't be a slave to anybody, especially not the anti-White Russian oligarchs who are just as bad as if not worse than the oligarchs who run Western Europe.
Wow those azeri have no history on their own, so they have to intervene with Armenian videos. That's actually proves the point who has culture and traditions and who is foreigner in Armenian Highlands.
My mouth is watering
my question is what does it mean "kebab" and "baklava" in armenian?
@CuriousGolden 🤣🤣🤣🤣👏👏👏👏 perfect comment.
very nice
What would Sona Movsesian do?
Getting on Conan Nerves...
I got really hungry suddenly
A dream to eat at this place.......
Armenian food is fire 🔥
I love this. I want to take a moment and thank the Arabs in Syria and all over who accepted my people after the Genocide. We are forever grateful.
I think the lady in the spice shop is exaggerating a bit too much. Ofcourse Armenians use spices. I think she really means they use different types of spices to the ones she is use to using in the middle east.
Looks very tasty
looks like a cross between central african street food and mexican street food.
Yes, Turkish food is great
@@Kickboxer7267 get over yourself would you, all countries from iraq to syria to lebanon to palestine cook food like this, get out of your trkish bubble. Thie is aleppian Armenian food
Lol . How many booster shots you Vice viewers have ?
the food will be very appetizing🍖
Sir, Armenians forced to Syria. Lebanon, Iraq, Iran!
Wow good food greetings from Türkiye🇹🇷
I love Mexican food, especially going to Taco Bell!
that's fake mexican food 😂
@@1salveregalo That's the joke 🤣
@@1salveregalo gringo eats 🤣
I'm armenian arab turkish and scandinavian ... but born and bred in usa. Food is one of the primary connections I have to my family's past
Big Ups
Armenians should migrate to Asia too like japan Korean or Philippines, Asia need to taste the armenian food
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I would love to eat there.
Waiting for all the hate comments lol
Vice usually does a decent job, I really don't get it, sure they can get bad info if one side wants them to have it and they accept it as real but that can happen to anybody, and if the person viewing has the wrong truth it often requires in person facts to change their opinion which many people aren't willing to do. Most people don't form their opinion on things they've seen in person I mean, and vice at least tries to.
Are you referring to how shady they are?
Why hate?
@@Omer1996E.C turks despise all their neighbors.
I hate Alfredo sauce in any form. Are you happy now? 😆
I love Arab cuisine
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Toilet papers
@@YALQUZAQ_AZ your family photos
@@YALQUZAQ_AZ nice to meet you thanks for introducing your mindset😂🖕🏽
@@Perseus3.33 get a life
Violence
This episode is not good pretty boring
The good committee thermodynamically command because fine prospectively pine by a utopian maraca. plucky, wooden dragon
El Ibn Ali 🐫🐢🍎 Canaan 🦅👁️ 🗽
Armenia getting bombed by Azerbaijan you should cover that ..
let us enjoy the spicy food in peace
Karabağ is Azerbaycan they can bomb whatever they want in their own country
Azerbaijan humiliated by Armenia for 30 years you should know that.
@@kingmike7965 We want peace during 30 years and we were getting the power
@@YALQUZAQ_AZ From dirty oil money and influence by bribing media outlets. Am I wrong that you guys are also attacking?
Make a video on state sponsored terrorism of endia against the BENGALI community!
One thing Armenians, Azerbaijanis, tadzhiks, turkmeni, and Kazakhs all have in common was the Ottomans crushed them and then the Russians did it again and held them as republics until the 1980s. Most ex Soviet states have never truly recovered financially, militarily, or spiritually. The Russians stifled religion and culture other than Soviet propaganda. Yet they will never be held accountable for ruthless dictatorship or forced to pay any reparations to these proud people. Shame on the red bear 🐻. Their entire history Russia has been crushed by one empire after another, and now they have done it to their own neighbors. They have learned nothing from history other than to be as cruel to others as their enemies were to them.
the ottomans were able to let everyone live in peace for 600+ years. They crushed them selves.
@@SsemTexx they only let them have peace after they defeated them in battle. They didn't call it the ottoman empire for nothing. Sorry if it hurts your feelings to hear that the Ottomans were not always so nice.
Ottomans obly crushed armenians which was smart move
@@necromancer7712 maybe for the Ottomans , for the Armenians it was undeserved suffering.
Very well-made Armani commercial.
Why is this reporter pretending to be an Arab. BTW shlonak is said in Iraq not Syria. Vice reporters are trying to hard in my opinion..
What do you mean? In syria we say shlonak too, seriously like what?
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44 dney vayna armeniya novaya simvol unitaz
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Armenian 🤥 machines
God I love deniers seething
But why did they come to LA? No one invited them.
Stfu. Be grateful that they have good food 😆
Your mom invited us, she heard that the sausage was good and wanted a taste
vice news when la armenian diaspora give them fat $$$$$ stacks
Well, what if they do a video on Azerbaijani cuisine next? I really want to try it someday.
Armenia is living rent free in your head.
@@bayersbluebayoubioweapon8477 Azerbaijani cuisine? Haven't heard that joke in a while.
@@ritam4926 I prefer Armenian, but still.
QARABAG 🇦🇿
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Imam Hussein 🇮🇷 ✌️😁
@@123DOWNUNDER890 South Azerbaijan is not Iran
@@YALQUZAQ_AZ The Republic of Azerbaijan is Iran. We will destroy you from within. Army of Iman Hussein in Azerbaijan is awakened.
@@123DOWNUNDER890 🇦🇲❤️🇮🇷
Turkish foods*
Look like turkish food to me
Turkish food is raw horse meat like the ones in Central Asia
It is. The Armenians copied it and sell them as their own. Not very kind.
@CuriousGolden Kardashian nation
Arab, turkish, armenian... it's all the same
All the same in which way?
The Turks have Arab culture why you think they don’t act like Turks from Central Asia Hhhhh
yup, all Ottoman food.
Ottoman cuisine
There's no such thing as Ottoman cuisine. In Turkey, everything is stolen cuisine. Your cuisine was red meat wrapped in a cloth under the horse's belly.
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Whats the point of that comment?
The genocide will never be forgotten. Turkey has a history that must be remembered.
@@user-id9bn1ic9v wait for it, because history will repeat again! Greece will be our new playground! The ottoman empire is coming back! Armenia already knows our power. :))) We are waiting for Armenia or Greece to make A wrong move, so we can get back what was already ours!!!
1916
@@justforsake8625 thats not possible with the current turkish economy. Maybe next century you will have better luck..
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Bulgaria>
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@@edgzta 🏊🏊🏊🏊🏊
@@edgzta istanbul
Army of Imam Hussein coming to Turkey after we are done with Azerbaijan.
This is Turkish kebab
Kebab is made by Turks nothing to do with Armenian food
Actually it was made by members of the order of the dragon. You were the Kebabs made by Vlad the Impaller.
Lol, go to Central Asia, you’ll see real Turkish food.
@@kristaporkhach I come to your house and ask your mum to cook Turkish dumplings 🥟
bruh again with the genocide crap
even in food segments. SMH on another note armenians and turkish folk look EXACTLY alike
Because there was a genocide and it effected where Armenians were displaced, so of course it was mentioned.
@@Hh-op5vi No, it is mentioned because diaspora Armenians invest money in news outlets for propaganda.
Turk, the world will never forget what you did to Armenians. It's the only way to prevent it from happening to another ethnic group.
Imagine calling the death of over a million people, “crap” - go see a therapist.
Karabakh is Azerbaijan 🇦🇿
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@@thedoorsbiggestfan?
always!
This is a video about food. Not about Artsakh.
@CuriousGolden iran is my ar$e 😂