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Dilijan to host first Armenian-Georgian cultural culinary festival

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YEREVAN, MAY 25, ARMENPRESS. The Development and Preservation of Armenian Culinary Traditions organization, with support from the Tourism Committee, is organizing the first ever Armenian-Georgian cultural-culinary festival.

The event will take place on 17 June in Dilijan, Development and Preservation of Armenian Culinary Traditions President Sedrak Mamulyan said on May 25.

The festival will feature Armenian and Georgian culture and cuisine.

“We’ve been working on this since 2019. We wanted to create a platform where we would talk with our neighboring Georgians about cultural heritage and present each other our culture and cuisine, thus create a regional product. The COVID-19 pandemic delayed our plans, but this year, with support from the Tourism Committee, we will launch this project,” Mamulyan said.

The festival will be themed around Mimino, the 1977 comedy film by Soviet director Georgiy Daneliya starring Vakhtang Kikabidze and Frunzik Mkrtchyan. The event will be dedicated to the memory of Kikabidze, who died in early 2023.

The second festival is expected to be held in Georgia, and it will be dedicated to Mkrtchyan.

Emil Lazarian: “I should like to see any power of the world destroy this race, this small tribe of unimportant people, whose wars have all been fought and lost, whose structures have crumbled, literature is unread, music is unheard, and prayers are no more answered. Go ahead, destroy Armenia . See if you can do it. Send them into the desert without bread or water. Burn their homes and churches. Then see if they will not laugh, sing and pray again. For when two of them meet anywhere in the world, see if they will not create a New Armenia.” - WS