{"id":2977,"date":"2012-04-17T19:21:16","date_gmt":"2012-04-17T19:21:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/archive.womennet.am?p=2977"},"modified":"2012-04-17T20:46:04","modified_gmt":"2012-04-17T20:46:04","slug":"%c2%ab%d6%84%d5%a1%d5%b2%d5%a1%d6%84%d5%ab%d5%b6-%d5%ba%d5%a1%d5%b0%d5%b8%d5%b2%d5%a8-%d5%a3%d5%b5%d5%b8%d6%82%d5%b2%d5%b6-%d5%a7%c2%bb%e2%80%a6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.womennet.am\/en\/%c2%ab%d6%84%d5%a1%d5%b2%d5%a1%d6%84%d5%ab%d5%b6-%d5%ba%d5%a1%d5%b0%d5%b8%d5%b2%d5%a8-%d5%a3%d5%b5%d5%b8%d6%82%d5%b2%d5%b6-%d5%a7%c2%bb%e2%80%a6\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cIt\u2019s the village that sustains the city\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/archive.womennet.amwp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/vera-grigoryn-3.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/>Recalling the tastiest memories has become Vera Grigoryan\u2019s beloved activity. She shows colorful dried fruits and sujukh that is made of walnuts and special grape paste. <\/strong><strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong><br \/>\n<\/strong>Vera rolls back the coil of the history and remembers with a smile her Tamar grandma\u2019s sujukhs that were hung on the rope in the yard.<br \/>\n-We cunningly and stealthily tried to approach sujukhs and could cut some pieces, then we used to shorten the strings\u2026- says Vera and laughs; she is now a master of dried fruits.<br \/>\n35 types of dried fruits, many exhibitions and certificates are the result of her 10-year work.<br \/>\nThe production of traditional dried fruits has its history. Vera Grigoryan is from Oshakan village.\u00a0 \u201cOshakan is the center of dried fruits as children see and eat dried fruits from the very day they are born\u201d, says Vera.<br \/>\nMrs. Vera is a pedagogue by her specialty. She was the director of Oshakan School for 5 years.<br \/>\nWhen I was a school director, we used to have lots of guests and treat them to my dried fruits. Many of them wanted to buy some\u2026 At that time I had the idea of uniting a few women and starting our own business. Our first client was the Embassy of Great Britain. Then we created our own company.\u00a0 Mrs. Vera\u2019s dried fruits have a huge success not only in Armenia but also abroad. She has also created new types of dried fruits. Dried tomatoes are one of her newly created types which is used in salads. It has a high demand and sometimes is called simply \u201cVera\u2019s Salad\u201d. Vera Grigoryan is also involved in public activities. She is the founder of the \u201cVillage woman\u201d NGO with the following slogan: \u201cIt\u2019s the village that sustains the city\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><strong>Lili1t Kochinjan<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p class=\"newstxt\">&nbsp; &nbsp; Recalling the tastiest memories has become Vera Grigoryan\u2019s beloved activity. She shows colorful dried fruits and sujukh that is made of walnuts and special grape paste. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2999,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[161],"tags":[155],"class_list":["post-2977","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-161","tag-155"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.womennet.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2977","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.womennet.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.womennet.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.womennet.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.womennet.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2977"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.womennet.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2977\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.womennet.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2999"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.womennet.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2977"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.womennet.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2977"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.womennet.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2977"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}