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CLOVIS WOMEN TO CO-CHAIR ARMENIAN FOOD BAZAAR
Clovis Independent (Fresno), CA
Oct 26 2011
Two Clovis-area women will co-chair the autumn food bazaar at
California's oldest Armenian Church.
Clovis resident Maria Kalayjian and onetime Clovis Unified parent
Houri Melkonian will oversee the Merchants' Lunch and Country Store
of the First Armenian Presbyterian Church of Fresno.
The gathering will take place at the Church campus, 430 South First
Street at Huntington Boulevard, from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. on Thursday,
November 17, 2011. The gathering will recall the 390th Anniversary of
the autumn feast of the Plymouth colonists and the Wampanoag Native
Americans of Massachusetts in 1621.
The annual harvest season celebration is open to the public. Lunch
is $12 per person and will include seasoned lulu kebab, rice pilaf,
cheese boureg, garden salad, pickled tourshee, fresh peda bread,
paklava de'Anatolia, and beverage. Meals will be available on a
dine-in, take out, and drive-through basis.
The Country Store will be open throughout the luncheon hours for
holiday shopping. The Store will offer such ethnic delicacies as
choreg, souboureg, paklava, yalanchi, bottled grape leaves, gutah,
tourshee, rojik, and basdegh. The abundant produce of the San Joaquin
Valley and an array of homemade breads and pastries will round out
the comestibles in the Store pantry.
The Store will also sell copies of "A Hundred Years and Still Cooking,"
the new and revised printing of the Fidelis Women's Society Centennial
recipe collection. The 500+ page cookbook includes instructions for
preparing 636 different ethnic dishes and sells for $35. First reviewed
in the January 14, 1998 edition of The Los Angeles Times, the volume
is a unique compendium of heritage recipes, Scriptural wisdom, Old
World culinary precepts, and Central California ethnic history. The
collection includes recipes by the pioneering Armenian women who first
settled in the heartland of the Golden State more than 120 years ago.
Merchants' Lunch meals and Country Store items may be reserved in
advance for drive-through pickup by calling (559) 351-3651 or (559)
237-6638 or faxing (559) 834-1147 or (559) 237-9526. Advance orders
should be placed on or before November 16. The drive-through lane will
be located on the Raisina Street side of the church campus, one block
west of First Street between Huntington Boulevard and Balch Avenue.
Reverend Mgrdich Melkonian is Senior Pastor of the Church, Reverend
Mike Mekredijian is Associate Pastor, Philip Garo, Jr., M.Div., is
the Director of Youth and Children's Ministries, and Maria Kalayjian
and Houri Melkonian are Co-Chairs of the 2011 Merchants' Lunch.
FAPC is a member congregation of the Evangelical Presbyterian Church
and the Armenian Evangelical Union of North America. The 2011 theme
of the congregation is "A New Community."
More information about the Merchants' Lunch is available by calling
(559) 237-6638 or e-mailing [email protected]
http://clovisindependent.com/2011/10/25/clovis-women-to-co-chair-armenian-food-bazaar/
Clovis Independent (Fresno), CA
Oct 26 2011
Two Clovis-area women will co-chair the autumn food bazaar at
California's oldest Armenian Church.
Clovis resident Maria Kalayjian and onetime Clovis Unified parent
Houri Melkonian will oversee the Merchants' Lunch and Country Store
of the First Armenian Presbyterian Church of Fresno.
The gathering will take place at the Church campus, 430 South First
Street at Huntington Boulevard, from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. on Thursday,
November 17, 2011. The gathering will recall the 390th Anniversary of
the autumn feast of the Plymouth colonists and the Wampanoag Native
Americans of Massachusetts in 1621.
The annual harvest season celebration is open to the public. Lunch
is $12 per person and will include seasoned lulu kebab, rice pilaf,
cheese boureg, garden salad, pickled tourshee, fresh peda bread,
paklava de'Anatolia, and beverage. Meals will be available on a
dine-in, take out, and drive-through basis.
The Country Store will be open throughout the luncheon hours for
holiday shopping. The Store will offer such ethnic delicacies as
choreg, souboureg, paklava, yalanchi, bottled grape leaves, gutah,
tourshee, rojik, and basdegh. The abundant produce of the San Joaquin
Valley and an array of homemade breads and pastries will round out
the comestibles in the Store pantry.
The Store will also sell copies of "A Hundred Years and Still Cooking,"
the new and revised printing of the Fidelis Women's Society Centennial
recipe collection. The 500+ page cookbook includes instructions for
preparing 636 different ethnic dishes and sells for $35. First reviewed
in the January 14, 1998 edition of The Los Angeles Times, the volume
is a unique compendium of heritage recipes, Scriptural wisdom, Old
World culinary precepts, and Central California ethnic history. The
collection includes recipes by the pioneering Armenian women who first
settled in the heartland of the Golden State more than 120 years ago.
Merchants' Lunch meals and Country Store items may be reserved in
advance for drive-through pickup by calling (559) 351-3651 or (559)
237-6638 or faxing (559) 834-1147 or (559) 237-9526. Advance orders
should be placed on or before November 16. The drive-through lane will
be located on the Raisina Street side of the church campus, one block
west of First Street between Huntington Boulevard and Balch Avenue.
Reverend Mgrdich Melkonian is Senior Pastor of the Church, Reverend
Mike Mekredijian is Associate Pastor, Philip Garo, Jr., M.Div., is
the Director of Youth and Children's Ministries, and Maria Kalayjian
and Houri Melkonian are Co-Chairs of the 2011 Merchants' Lunch.
FAPC is a member congregation of the Evangelical Presbyterian Church
and the Armenian Evangelical Union of North America. The 2011 theme
of the congregation is "A New Community."
More information about the Merchants' Lunch is available by calling
(559) 237-6638 or e-mailing [email protected]
http://clovisindependent.com/2011/10/25/clovis-women-to-co-chair-armenian-food-bazaar/