Thursday, December 8, 2011

Stir This UNESCO!: Food fight underway to annul slight over harisa

The Development and Preservation of the Armenian Culinary Traditions NGO, is planning to appeal UNESCO's decision passed during its annual session in Bali on November 22-29, by which one of the most popular dishes of the Armenian ethnic cuisine – harisa – has appeared on the UNESCO list of Non-Material Heritage as a Turkish national dish called Keshkesk.


Sedrak Mamulyan(left) and Vahe Atanesyan(right) spoke about the importance of harisa as "national identity of Armenians "and the plan to appeal UNESCO's decision

Armenian News

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