Over the last decade, a new generation of Armenian chefs and restaurateurs has emerged in Los Angeles.
For decades, Armenian immigrant food in Los Angeles was the hospitable shop skewering varieties of kebab, charring lahmadjoon in a brick oven or slicing shawarma onto pita bread, sumac and roasted garlic puncturing the air, streaming from the vertical rotisserie out to the sidewalks.
When a genocide and political turmoils forced millions of Armenians out of their homeland, their culinary heritage met influence from the Middle East and other countries where they found refuge. They carried those traditions — some old, others more recent — all the way to the United States, where food became one of the most important and defining facets of the community.
“To me, Armenian food is a foundation of certain flavors, and then building off of that, a sort of seamless fusion with other cultures that were so hospitable to us as a people. In return we’ve kept and preserved their culinary heritage through our cooking,” says Crista Marie Ani Aladjadjian, founder of, an ethically sourced spice collection that pays tribute to her Syrian Armenian heritage.
Over the last decade, a new generation of Armenian chefs and restaurateurs has emerged, eager to break boundaries and expand the cuisine narrative by bringing in new flavors and spices. Take Ara Zada, chef and co-author of “
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