Catch up posting: Armenian festival.

Catch up posting: Armenian festival. This was a new one for me and I'm not even sure they do it every year? There is a teeny, tiny Armenian church in Niagara Falls. Or there are two of them next to each other? I can't tell. I gather the community has shrunk over the years and many people have moved away. However, they have a festival once a year where people even come from out of town to help out. Total accident I heard about it.

There is, of course, meat and fire - I got both the lamb chunks on a stick and the chicken chunk. Different from the other festivals they have rice pilaf with stuff in it, also bulgur pilaf, also bean salad, and they made the regional bread! There's a quarter of one of the round, relatively flat loaves in there. While these are things that would not be out of place in a lot of the other festivals, they don't have them. vOv?

I limited my goody purchases to two types of Armenian sweet bread. The braided one is called choreg (or something like that). It has mahlab in it. I love mahlab, it is delicious. The other is a variant of katah, I think. It's made in many layers and rolled, as well. It's a lot of work, basically. Seriously delicious stuff. Would eat again.