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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
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