Matnakash
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Matnakash (Armenian: Մատնաքաշ) is a traditional Armenian bread. It is usually soft and puffy. The word matnakash literally means finger draw, referring to the way the bread is prepared. Matnakash, along with lavash, a thinner Armenian bread, can be purchased from numerous bakeries in Armenia as well as places populated by the Armenian diaspora.
[edit] History
Matnakash was elevated in Soviet times. In the 1930s, food specialists in Soviet Armenia wanted to mark the new communist country with more modern looking bread. The matnakash became mass-produced urban bread. Even the bakers drawing was fashioned to fit the soviet agenda. It resembled a plowed field with rows and furrows. The breads rim was interpreted as an agricultural field and its imprinted lines as tilted rows. [1]
[edit] References
- ^ Armenian Food: Fact, Fiction & Folklore By Irina Petrosian, David Underwood - Page 35
[edit] See also
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