Lavash. The word literally means good ("lav") food ("ash") in Armenian. It's a delicious, difficult to make wonder ...

Here's a cocktail for a strange city and a wonderful liquor. Ararat brandy deserves to be drunk more. Yerevan deserves a cocktail. Th...

Khachkars, especially stone ones, are found all over Armenia. They are oblong, carved slabs that commemorate the dead - and they are also e...

European wine tours are funny things. You're almost never get the kind of access that you think you're going to. We spent about an ...

After many days of snow, we decided that we may as well just give in and go someplace where all this cold white stuff would feel like it bel...

Armenia once had three big lakes. Lake Van is now in Turkey, Lake Urmia is now in Iran. That leaves only one - the high-altitude, brillian...

I must not have a great imagination, because time and time again, the mental picture I excitedly draw up before visiting a place pales in ...

Where the snout of the Arabian Tectonic Plate jams up against the Eurasian Plate a jagged line of peaks, earthquakes and raw rock has formed...