The food system is one of life essentials, where the key features of popular worldview and lifestyle of people are relatively evident. Traditional cultural manifestations of having or refusing meals are interrelated with life style of an individual, with a subsequent procedure, type of food, rules of conduct typical of festive meal. These rules are of universal nature and are represented in folklore (sometimes implicitely hidden), and often appear in mythological plots.

Keywords food food culture feast ritual holiday myth folklore.

Food is an essential part of the culture of the national feasts. In this context, it is a sacrifice (cereals, meat, dairy products), the purpose of which is to express gratitude for a high harvest and protection from natural disasters (drought, rain, etc.). Atsik (malt) in the scientific literature is mentioned as food symbolizing the arrival of spring and is prepared during Lent or on the eve of Easter.

Keywords аtsik Lent Easter festive ritual culture Syunik food grain wheat rain St. Sargis matagh (sacrifice).

At the beginning of 1919, the food issue continued to be one of the most serious among the numerous problems the Government of the young Republic of Armenia faced. In order to combat the famine still reigning in the country, the Government of Armenia at the end of January 1919 adopted a decision approved by the Parliament as a special bill on the formation of a civil mission, which at the end of May of the same year was sent to Europe, and then to the United States.

KeywordsThe Republic of Armenia the USA recognition resolution civil mission subcommittee assistance food loan community unity demonstration.