How to pronounce “armen” in English

Armenia has borders with Georgia, Iran, Turkey, and Azerbaijan.

In Armenia. Oh, so we have people here who have actually gone to the source.

So Armenians are very used to just eating raw green onions.

In Armenia, they would probably not use the lemon juice.

In Armenia, they make them really large.

In Armenia, when I went to a commercial bakery there, people use what they have.

of Armenian food. We have beet greens soup.

and Armenia. And I went out to Kars after reading Orhan Pamuk's book, "Snow." Orhan Pamuk is a Nobel laureate, and he wrote this book

Ara is an Armenian American chef from LA.

stop talking about Armenia.

And dill in Armenia is just-- it's almost sweet.

In the country of Armenia and in Artsakh, olive oil is very expensive.

They both go through Armenia.

The difference between Armenian American food and culture and what I saw in Armenia the country, the differences are pretty profound.

So there's more Armenians that live outside of Armenia than in Armenia.

And another thing was Armenian culture goes back-- Armenia used to be a much bigger country and then several centuries ago, there

So after the Armenian Genocide which started in 1915, there was a mass migration and 1.5 million Armenians

The Eastern Armenians would be like, I don't know, that's maybe too spicy for me.

except for Armenia, China, Croatia, Ukraine, and Uruguay, show this rise in individualism.

What do Armenia, Ukraine, Croatia, Uruguay, and China have in common?

They're called Armenian cucumbers.

And I saw those Armenian cucumbers.

I'm Armenian on both sides.

started out as an Armenian grocery store in the' 40s because there were two Orthodox churches in the neighborhood

And that was something that Armen talked about both on the morning news the next day and then on the "60 Minutes" sports program on Showtime

And we'll just start from you Armen, and then go down.

and also in Georgia and Armenia, and was one of the great founder varieties in the beginning of time, which it was a little Casanova

I think of it as the Armenian answer to refried beans.

I did have some history with Armenian food.

I had some really good Armenian friends in high school and college and I always felt they talked about food more than any of my other friends.

And Ara Zada grew up in an Armenian Egyptian household in LA, and he had also been to Armenia to teach

you find all over Artsakh in Armenia.

if I'm doing an Armenian table, just so you can get the scallion.

So one of the interesting things about Armenian food in general is a lot of people think, oh, it's got to be filled with spices.

There's lavash on every table in Armenia.

And the women in Goris have strong Armenian accents and they like to talk all at once, so we learned a lot,

It's hard to explain Armenia without having a map in back of me, but just to get where it is in the world,

So it's not technically part of Armenia, but there's two roads in and out.

and there's 8 million diaspora Armenians.

And the ones who live in Armenia also have Soviet heritage, Soviet food traditions, that Armenians who either grew up in California, France,

So when I went to Armenia it was sort of like, where's-- oh, so is an interesting story.

That's something that-- in Armenia today they think of that as a newer food, even though for me I always thought of it as Armenian pizza.

Pickles are always on the table in Armenia, too.

There was a guy who was half Armenian.

they are Jews in Iran they're Armenians in Iran there are certain is there she

There is a song in Armenian.

It was us forming a team to go to Armenia and really uncover stories that we felt needed to be written.

Like, Armenia-- the food there is amazing.

And it wasn't until John was talking to me about Armenia that I thought, oh, yeah, this is a great idea, but we need to find another person to complete our team.