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Collage of interesting facts and famous quotations about Georgian cusine. Food philosopher Lisa Heldke emphasizes the high stakes of encounters with alien food: “It feels much more risky to taste the food of an unfamiliar culture tha

Anton Chekhov who was considered to be among worlds greatest writers of short fiction famously exclaimed: “in Georgia nature astonished one to the point of madness and despair.”   “I saw marvellous things&rdquo

Georgia is a country full of fascinating complexities. Lodged at the crossing point between Europe, Middle East and Asia and called The Edge of Empires, with torrid past and tangled geo-political settings, Georgia presents a captivating cas

Nothing in this world can let you lose yourself and find yourself all at once. Nothing, except travel.   The emotions evoked by the gift of travel are an accumulation like no other. A perfect balance is struck between chaos and harmo

Far off on the easternmost shores of the Black Sea, Georgia is often described as a crossroads between cultures and continents – a junction between Asia and Europe that can’t be confined to one place. Ambiguous or not, one quest

Peter Nasmyth described Georgians as people whose past is still the most valued part of themselves with determined desire to hang onto their culture.   Professor Donald Rayfield  wrote that “Georgian luminaries, medieval a

By Melanie Hamilton   In a cozy little home, just on the edge of Telavi, an eating area canopied by emerald grape vines holds a long, narrow table dotted with Georgian classics: badrijani nigvzit (slivers of eggplant with walnut past

By Mary-Katherine Hilman    If you’ve read the Bible, Greek mythology, or any books about European gastronomy, you have a sense of how the world, historically, has cherished wine. In our increasingly globalized society, wi