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    FIRST ARMENIAN SALUTES PILGRIMS
    By Ron Orozco

    Fresno Bee, CA
    Nov 15 2011

    An annual autumn food bazaar at a Fresno church this year will salute
    the 390th anniversary of the Thanksgiving tradition in North America.

    First Armenian Presbyterian Church will recognize the Pilgrims'
    celebration of the good harvest of 1621 at its Merchants' Lunch and
    Country Store bazaar 11 a.m.-2 p.m Thursday at the church, 430 S.

    First St.

    The church's senior pastor, the Rev. Mgrdich Melkonian, in his
    greetings and prayers at the event, will recall that autumn feast
    of the Plymouth colonists and the Wampanoag Native Americans. First
    Armenian Presbyterian Church is California's oldest Armenian church.

    The Merchants' Lunch includes traditional Armenian cuisine -- seasoned
    lulu kebab, rice pilaf, cheese boureg, garden salad, pickled tourshee,
    fresh peda bread, paklava de' Antolia -- and beverage. Cost is $12.

    The lunch is available on a dine-in, take-out or drive-through basis.

    The Country Store offers holiday shopping for ethnic delicacies
    such as choreg, souboureg, paklava, bottled grape leaves, gutah,
    tourshee, rojik and basdegh, as well as Valley produce and homemade
    breads and pastries. Drive-through orders for Merchants' Lunch and
    Country Store items must be made by today by calling (559) 351-3651
    or faxing 834-1147.

    The Country Store also will sell a revised printing of the Fidelis
    Women's Society Centennial recipe book, "A Hundred Years and Still
    Cooking." It includes recipes by the pioneering Armenian women who
    first settled in the Valley more than 120 years ago.

    http://www.fresnobee.com/2011/11/14/2614622/first-armenian-salutes-pilgrims.html

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