If you’ll permit me to boast, this is a pretty great article in the Los Angeles Times about the confluence of my family’s culture with that of the author’s, Lorenza Munoz’s, family.

The author of this article is the wife of my Grandfather’s brother’s son. I can truly attest to the fact that it has been a source of personal and cultural joy for our family to share our heritage with the Munoz’s and likewise share in theirs.

I particularly enjoyed Lorenza’s description of my grandfather Tony’s (Անդրանիկ), culinary habits; his love of mezze and martinis. Indeed, I come from a family with a rich love for food, not only for our Armenian culinary traditions, but food of all kinds.

The Munoz’s are a blessed family, and it has been an enriching experience for all us to share in our respective traditions.

The Armenian Diaspora shouldn’t consider cultural excahange a “challenge”, but instead intermarriage should be embraced as an opportunity to enrichen our lives and share our time-tested values.

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