In the midst of my weekend purge, I was reminded of a favorite dish from my childhood, its iconic box and its jingle, now stuck in my head…Rice-A-Roni, the San Francisco treat… And, I recalled a recipe Angie Brenner and I recreated for our cookbook, Tree of Life: Turkish Home Cooking: Armenian Rice and Vermicelli Pilaf. The recipe is based on a our travels in Turkey and especiallly to the eastern city of Van, once the capital of the Armenian Empire. And where we learned to make Armenian rice pilaf.

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