 Because of this they have tended to influence rather than be influenced in their manner of cooking.They travelled around the Caucasus more than the other nationalities and were the main commercial traders.Other writers have expressed their doubts noting that "the culinary dishes which Armenians sometimes characterize as 'authentically Armenian' are on the one hand common features of the non-Armenian cuisine in many Arabic countries as well as in Cyprus and Greece and, on the other hand, popular throughout Iran".