I made a great pot of "Armenian Lemon Egg-drop Chicken Noodle Soup" today, with chunks of chicken and celery added to the recipe. I think that is my absolute favorite soup, with the possible exception of Manti, if that is counted as a soup. I like to add carrots too, but they are virtually impossible to find, since they are out of season.

A postscript on running into people on the streets... not ten minutes after writing that entry I ran into the son of the owner of the restaurant who's chef I had run into earlier, and then I saw the guy who owns the best used bookstore in Armenia (on Mashdots under the Matenadaran).

A first postscript to the inside doors... the guy I counted on to meet on Friday from Vanadzor could not come because his uncle had died. It occured to me that deaths in the family were incredibly more frequent here than in America and it finally occured to me why. Because families are much bigger than in America, you have two or three times as many siblings, aunts, uncles, etc, as well as are much closer to your cousins and all.... so it makes sense that with so many more people close to you, there is a bigger chance something will happen to someone close. Today we went to a couple of places and still no luck, they were just too busy to be bothered. Where are you Home Depot?!?!?

I went to Vernissage today and dropped off some of Rediscovering Armenia books. Now I will finally see how well they sell...

Do I get a prize for squeezing so many links into this log?