"Italians constantly think of two things, and one of them is spaghetti", Catherine Deneuve used to say during her trip around Italy. Today we can say so not only about the Italians, pasta has conquered the whole world! Have any doubts about that? Then let me show you: Many national cuisines have pasta recipes, vegetarians [...]
Drinks ... How much in this word. Tea, and coffee, and cocktails and healthy things. They are always close to our favorite dishes, as a supplement or aperitif. It can be sweet and sour. Most often, the drink can be found on a person's character. If it's a glass of whiskey, it is likely that it ordered by [...]
If to come down to the Garni Gorge, one can see wonderful assembly of rocks. In Armenia it's simply called Symphony of the Stones. It's very beautiful place but so scary. At the entrance to the gorge, there's local ‘mafia’. A three-minute conversation and thousand dramas — and an active old man allows us to [...]
This is a second part my article '10 Tips For Beginning Food Photographer' (Read part 1 here). I glad what you like my advices about food photography. It's inspiring to write more and more things about this not easy way. And I promise writing new tips about food photography. And now read second part. Camera [...]
If my hosts say the truth, I wasn't particularly lucky with weather in Armenia. But if to trust my feelings, at some points the beauty of this highland country made my heart soar. Today we went to Garni – a region famous for its tastiest water and dessert named 'gata'. Frankly speaking, both of them [...]
Lavash, perhaps, is one of the key elements of Armenian cuisine. Armenians eat it with everything and rap everything in it. It's an all-purpose thing that can be even used to wipe your lips. At least, this is what I saw in some restaurants. This is low-caloric and very tasty bread. And it has nothing [...]
It's rather difficult to put all my shooting experience in just 10 tips, since there are much more rules, and every day we open more and more new things, with each new examined and analysed photo we're becoming more and more involved with a wonderful world of food-photography. But if to speak about the basics [...]
High in the mountains... But after all, in Armenia everything is located high in the mountains... Well, high in the mountains in the vicinity of Alaverdi there can be found a unique hotel that looks more like a palace of an Armenian prince. This hotel belongs to the Tufenkian Hotels chain, named after its founder [...]
High in the mountains, if to climb above Dilijan in the direction of Alaverdi, there's located a small village named Fioletovo. Russian Old Believers, who were expelled from Russia in czarist days, live here. And I think their descendants are not very upset about this, since it's a great luck to live in such a [...]
I'm always short of luck when it comes to weather during my flights. I take off and land with heavy clouds almost all the time. Perhaps this is the price I have to pay for my frequent flights. But it doesn't matter; I've got used to it, and just sleep the whole flight long. This [...]
