Featured Silver dish with blind filigree & turquoise cabs - origin?

Party at Any's house!

 

My cousin does that dancing and also Georgian, too. And the whole singing thing.

 

I used to do that too, on stage. All sorts of Balkan dances, and I was the lead singer, mainly Bulgarian songs. Because I was the smallest dancer of the group I also led quite a few dances, twirling a knotted cloth, great fun.
I never danced Georgian dances but danced a lot of Armenian, loved that. Graceful arm and hand movements and complicated foot 'gymnastics'.
And Flamenco, of course.
Unfortunately I had to stop when I could no longer remember choreographies and my muscles wouldn't cooperate anymore.
I can still do a Makedonsko Horo though, nice and simple. We did it the Gypsy way, with more hip movement.

 

This looks like fun! And I bet the food was good, too!
This has inspired me to make stuffed grape leaves for dinner tonight.

 

Yay, inspiration through dance!
I am also having stuffed grape leaves tonight, but mine come in a Turkish can. I am sure they are pure junk compared to what you'll be making. I love them home made, but I don't cook anymore.

 

I was raised eating them Syrian style(with meat}, but tonight I will make "yalanchi", which is the vegetarian Armenian version.
Maybe I'll serve them on my sterling plate! But mine doesn't have turquoise cabs......

 

Sounds yum. I don't eat meat, so vegetarian is fine.

Doesn't need to have, 'plain' sterling is beautiful.

 

my Dad would luv you guys....but he'd trade the grape for cabbage ,,,,
he relished Halishkas.....

 

When I was ten, we moved into a three-flat owned by an Armenian couple, in addition to telling me about surviving the Armenian genocide (their holocaust), they fed me wonderful food, including stuffed grape leaves, a mashed potato salad, and another yummy salad with tomatoes and cucumbers that tasted like tabbouleh without the bulgur, but my absolute favorite, and still remember the taste 50+ years later, was a type of steak tartare balls - sooo good! Dammit, now I'm hungry...

~Cheryl

 

now ya got me hungry....& it's sugar shack time here.........but so many are shut down...or worse....closed their business....

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Mmmmm! I love these, too!

 

I adore any kind of Middle Eastern related food. I've Lebanese neighbours: husband is a chef and every so often he brings me care packages.

 

I need Lebanese cook neighbors! And stuffed grape leaves! We used to get dolmas in salad bars here, when we had salad bars. They were Greek style from a can, but they're yummy. The tinned ones were rice only. No meat.

 

... & another Antiquers thread makes a hard right turn to go off course.

 

Bumped right over the curb and off the track it did!

 

It does turn to food rather a lot.

 

For someone who was having a busy day, you have made the rest of us look like slackers!
Some really interesting pieces there and I can see the similarities.
Thankyou for posting it all

 

Can I move in with you?

 

Me too please

 

As long as you like cats.

Southern Indian neighbour also brings food. His wife is such a cook!