Georgian cuisine

[Nan]

Apart from brandy we have good wine. I would not be so sure about beer. Normal I would say, nothing out of the ordinary. I myself prefer foreign beer to our own. Also we have good vodka (we call it araki) but not the one they sell in shops. home made is the best vodka which someone would be reluctant to sell as it is produced through an exerting process in household conditions.

As for food, we have heavy, fattening, spicy/hot food. Below are the pictures, barely any english explanation I am afraid but the photos can speak for themselves.

xinkali
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ajarian khachapuri
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imeretian khachapuri:
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mwvadi - shashliki
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This is a small list. Will search for the websites and post them later on.

I quit working for the public office as the Court I was working for, moved to another town. Once I finish my studies in a year, I am planning to go back and hopefully will get another job. Anyway I will always be glad to host an IFG delegation .

Best regards,

Nana

p.s. I checked out some websites fail to open and did editing.

[Grumpy]

"xinkali" - Some sort of stuffed dumpling - in the Pelmeny/Veresiki/Pierogi/Sochni vein..........served with chips ( and a packet of fags ? ) apparently.

"ajarian khachapuri" - A flat bread with eggs. I`ve seen this somewhere else where it was described as `a sort of pizza`........Turkey - that`s where.

"imeretian khachapuri:" - "Internal Server Error"

"mwvadi - shashliki " - Well this looks like lumps of raw meat but I happen to know that Shashlik are kebabs. I also know that the meat is marinaded in something tart - white wine, lemon juice, pomegranite juice or vinegar. The word originates from the Crimea but Shashlic are found from Poland to Mongolia. I`ve only had the Turkish version - with chicken and lamb - which are marinaded in lemon juice.

Interestingly our Polish friend insists that the only good vodka is the home-made variety.........I`m not convinced - but I detest vodka anyway.

[Nan]

These last posts are really appetising. On Georgian forums where I frequent, people know me mostly posting in the food and drink topics and flooding in other topics on the same subject . Nice to meet somebody alike interested in gastronomy . If, however, there is a relevant topic on IFG, maybe we could move there the last part of Vikram's shooting odyssey as we have clearly digressed from fine guns to no less fine food.

Indeed, cuisines are more or less alike. I thought one thing what made food particularly Georgian was our spices apart from the way of cooking. When I tasted Indian spices though, they tasted like ours. So I do not really know. It is also worth mentioning, there are many common words in Georgian and in hindi//urdu/telugu and Vikram says we have stolen all those words . What explains this is that Georgia has been a bridge between Europe and Asia and we have experienced all the kind of influences. Also it was conquered many times throughout our history, sometimes for centuries even.

Eventually, I would suggest to "eat the Georgian pudding" which must be the best way to check it out.

I will be off for sometime and will join you later on, hopefully with photos taken in Amsterdam gun shops.

Best regards,

Nana

[Grumpy]

"It is also worth mentioning, there are many common words in Georgian and in hindi//urdu/telugu and Vikram says we have stolen all those words".

That Vikram eh ? Like the father in `Goodness Gracious Me` who claims everything was invented in India. Georgian language ? Indian. Purdey shotgun ? Indian. Rolls Royce ? Indian.

Of course food is interesting: First you shoot it, then you cook it, then you eat it. Perfectly logical.

Have fun checking out Amsterdam.

[dev]

[quote="Grumpy";p="26952"]"It is also worth mentioning, there are many common words in Georgian and in hindi//urdu/telugu and Vikram says we have stolen all those words".

That Vikram eh ? Like the father in `Goodness Gracious Me` who claims everything was invented in India. Georgian language ? Indian. Purdey shotgun ? Indian. Rolls Royce ? Indian.

Yes I loved that character. Wish we could even make half a purdey though.
You've got me overeating ever since this topic came up. Thank you so much. Dev

[Grumpy]

Dev, that rather begs the question : `Which half ?`

[dev]

Trick question Bhagwan Grumpy ?

Dev

[Grumpy]

Er, no .................... Half a shotgun isn`t much use........unless it`s a single barrel ?

`Bhagwan` ? I`ve been called a lot of things in my time but never that before...........as far as I know anyway !

[dev]

Er, no .................... Half a shotgun isn`t much use........unless it`s a single barrel ?

`Bhagwan` ? I`ve been called a lot of thionhs in my time but never that before...........as far as I know anyway !

You are easy, aren't you sifu?

dev

[Grumpy]

Blimey, now I`m `Easy`, a `Bhagwan` and a `Sifu`.
- Well the first of the three is definitely an insult.......although usually applied to certain young ladies.

`Sifu` is from Chinese martial arts and means - literally - `teacher-father` although the actual context is more like the Japanese `Sensei`.

I`ve just looked up `Bhagwan` and have discovered that it translates as `blessed one` and is used by spiritual masters.

Yeah, well. I earned `Sensei` but as for `Bhagwan`........ Wow, have you got me mis-labelled !!!

I`m supposed to be a blessed spiritual master and teacher-father but with loose morals ?

Think I`ll have a drink and take up smoking again.............Are there any `easy` women around here ?

[dev]

I meant easy as easy to wind up. Sifu =master, i apply that to your gunfu.
have some t master.
dev

[Grumpy]

Seems like we are light years apart in our interpretation of what a wind-up is.

You have to remember that a lot of the time I`m just making polite noises because I haven`t a clue what you guys are talking about.

[penpusher]

BTW Shakepeare was also Indian.Original name Sheikh Peer

penpusher

[Grumpy]

And George Dickens - Indian.

You`re definitely right about Shakespeare - I remember the father saying so.

[dev]

[quote="Grumpy";p="27142"]
And George Dickens - Indian.

Almost malyalee sounding...it actually was dickens charles .

Dev