For the first episode of Kitchen Report, Lucy Vartevanian takes us Beyond the Recipe and takes on Buckwheat, a superfood many of us might not be eating at all or enough of. Buckwheat might seem like a boring food but in Lucy's hands, it becomes a delicious and nutritious treat. Plus, a look at how Armenian farmers tried to make buckwheat a profitable crop.
In this episode of Kitchen Report: Beyond the Recipe, Lucy Vartevanian preserves tomatoes for the winter months. Find out what goes into packing those shelves with preserves, why many people in Armenia and the region go through the trouble and what could possibly go wrong in the process.
In this episode of Kitchen Report:Beyond the Recipe, Lucy Vartevanian prepares her version of homemade sugar-free sour cherry juice otherwise known in Armenia as "bal" juice. Lucy also shows us a special way of drinking it - on ice with vodka.
In this episode of Kitchen Report: Beyond the Recipe, Lucy Vartevanian visits the weekend farmer's market in Yerevan, talks shop with the farmers, compares prices and quality, comes across unexpected produce and manages to make a healthy smoothie.
In this final episode for 2017, Lucy Vartevanian of EVN Kitchen Report prepares a simple dish for her New Year's table she calls "Anoush Abour."
July 24 marked the first Muslim prayer service in the Hagia Sophia in almost 90 years. Erdogan’s neo-Ottoman policies are also reverting other aspects of Turkish society back to a bygone era.
On April 16, 2017, Turkish citizens voted in a referendum that would give sweeping new powers to President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. With almost 99 percent of the ballots counted, Erdogan has claimed victory. What will this mean for Turkey's democracy in the coming years? Vahram Ter-Matevosyan explains.
In the past several years, residents of Yerevan have started spending more time in cafes and the outdoors generally. We eat out, take our breaks, work and escape from the cares of our daily lives.
Ethiopia’s historic Armenian community is bracing for renewed fighting as the country’s year-long civil war reaches the outskirts of the capital, Addis Ababa. What will be the fate of the Armenians living there?
In December 2020, the EU passed the Action Plan on Human Rights and Democracy, equipping its foreign policy arsenal with a powerful new tool to protect human rights. Armenians should be paying close attention to how it will be used.