We recently spent a weekend in lovely Lancaster, Pennsylvania, attending a reunion for families with children adopted from Armenia. Who would think we would find an Armenia feast in the middle of the Amish countryside? But find a feast we did! Armenian Delight from Broomall, Pennsylvania cooked up delicious dolma, kebab, tabouli, kufta and, of […]
Pakhlava
Pakhlava from the Urban Cabin kitchen
Three cups of nuts, a cup and a half of butter, layers of flakey pastry, and enough sugar for an entire village, that’s Pakhlava. This weekend, Big Papa and I went to a shindig at “the other Beth’s,” aka Beth Whitman, the Wanderlust and Lipstick travel Diva! I thought it fitting to bring along some […]
You say Baklava and I say Pakhlava
It was 1980. I was twenty and studying abroad in Amsterdam. Most of my fellow students were headed to the south of France for spring break. I had other plans. My destination was Greece. I traveled by train through Germany, Austria, what was at the time Yugoslavia, before entering eastern Greece at Thessaloniki. I eventually […]