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The Family Reunion.


“When our family got together for this Sunday afternoon dinner, both ends of the Armenian culinary map were represented.”


- Peter Balakian shares a meal to remember.



A meal is flavored with the past and future.


By Peter Balakian


I'm recalling a Sunday in the late 1970s when I was home from graduate school and the two sides of my family arrived at my parents' house in Tenafly, New Jersey, bearing dishes for a big meal. My parents, sisters and brother, cousins and aunts and uncle and I sat around the oval walnut table in the dining room, sunlight on the yellow walls.


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