Armenian

Friday 24 August 2007

Ryan and I had a very very special dinner tonight. The Armenian community is pretty big here in Buenos Aires, and have set up a neat little Friday night tradition. Every week, all the mothers and grandmothers gather at the cultural center to cook dinner for hundreds and hundreds of people. There is an amazing variety of delicious home-cooked Armenian food, and all proceeds go toward funding their children's trips back to the homeland.

The food was amazing - we had hummus and stuffed eggplant and red pepper puré and meatballs and spinach pie and fresh yogurt and the desserts! Oh my goodness, heavenly little clumps of syrup and nuts and cinnamon and filo dough, it was unbelievable. Dinner lasted a few hours, and we walked, er, rolled out of there quite happy.