Pot Roast

I learnt how to make a pot roast Armenian-style from a soft-spoken elegant lady who lives in a suburb of Jerusalem. It is thanks to her that I learnt to cook some of the Armenian recipes in this book. As I sit with Shoshana Hagopian on her front verandah, quietly sipping tea and delicately nibbling on a scrumptious home-made chocolate cake, she repeats to me for the umpteenth time how Armenians will always keep their nationalistic spirit, no matter where they are or where they go. Still, sh