The region of Adjara boasts a number of regional specialties, all revolving around some combination of cheese, eggs, and butter. The only one to enjoy widespread popularity throughout Georgia is adjaruli khachapuri, or Adjaran cheese bread. This was the first dish our group of teachers was treated to upon arriving in Batumi, and it is [...]
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Grilled Cheese Goes Decadent
Posted in breakfast, cooking, travel on September 11, 2010 | 8 Comments »
Bolomde! (Or, What Happens When You Combine Eight Georgian Men, Homemade Wine, and a Bagpipe)
Posted in travel on September 9, 2010 | 3 Comments »
Due to a short bout with the flu and a whirlwind trip to the capital, I neglected to write about a memorable day spent with a group of Georgian twenty-somethings at a river near the Turkish border. My host mother’s niece Maia had invited me to accompany her and her friends to grill shishkebabs “in [...]
Cracking the Breakfast Caper
Posted in breakfast, travel on August 30, 2010 | 5 Comments »
Of all the meals, I find breakfast the most fascinating. It is a meal shrouded in mystery. Usually taken at home surrounded by only those we deem close enough to see us before the pillow creases have faded from our cheeks, breakfast is a strictly by-invitation-only event. We rarely read about what locals eat for [...]
Coffee Lessons from Across the Border
Posted in breakfast, travel on August 24, 2010 | 2 Comments »
The places we visit and live become a part of us–literally–through all we imbibe and consume. Though I’ve only been in Georgia for three weeks, I can already sense that the demitasse of Turkish coffee with which my host family starts each morning will remain a part of my daily routine long after I’ve returned [...]
A Feast for All Senses
Posted in travel on August 9, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
When spending time abroad, one’s English conversation becomes sprinkled with words from the host country’s tongue that are best left untranslated. While they may have literal equivalents in English, we keep them as they are because, in their native form, they contain both literal meaning and cultural context. The Georgian word “supra” is one of [...]
A Taste of (the Other) Georgia
Posted in travel on July 30, 2010 | 1 Comment »
I write this post from O’Hare International Airport in Chicago, where I am waiting to board a plane bound (eventually) for the former Soviet republic of Georgia, which I will be calling home for the next several months. Teaching English by day, I plan to spend the rest of my time trolling hill and dale [...]
