As someone who could be described as a "Kartvelaboo", I love and have a deep respect for Georgian cuisine. Khachapuri, Georgian cheese bread, has become the trendier version of pizza in metropolitan areas despite predating it by centuries. That said, it is still largely unknown to the wider American public. My friends and I, all Americans who were a part of our university's Russian (Language) Club, lived in our university's Eastern European Cultures House (EECH) and have been to Georgia on either a short trip or study abroad, share this appreciation for its culture. I'm even planning with one of them to open a Georgian restaurant somewhere in the US after we graduate; we haven't gotten very far, but it's still on the table. Though I don't have a sense of nostalgia for it, Chashushuli has the same warm, hearty, tomato-y feeling of a Sunday gravy that an Italian-American family would put on early in the weekend morning. It's a beef and onion stew (tr...
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