| Резюме: | These recipes bind fragments of many Caucasian cultures. The author of new book Kaukasis describes how she cherishes the region’s traditions while creating something new In times of great economic struggle, people fall apart. I have seen it happen, where close friends, parents and their children or siblings break ties with each other because it is simply too difficult to continue. When it’s hard to survive financially, hard to stay strong and hard to make sense of events, it’s easy to forget what unites us. The same happens with entire countries. It happened to my Armenian family, the inspiration for my book, Kaukasis. Originally from Nagorno-Karabakh, when war broke out in the 1980s, they were forced to abandon their summer house, the region and eventually even Azerbaijan’s capital, Baku, to relocate to Kiev, Ukraine. Despite the anguish, mutual hostility and atrocities, I have not once heard my Armenian aunt say anything negative about Azerbaijanis. She has always reiterated that it was an artificially created conflict, like so many of them were at the time and still are. Continue reading... |