Tasting Georgia: A Food And Wine Journey In The Caucasus

"More travelogue than cookbook, more journey than destination, Tasting Georgia is an exhaustive, lavish look at the foodways of a country often overshadowed by neighboring Russia and Turkey. Georgia’s population is scarcely greater than Connecticut’s, but Carla Capalbo devotes loving attention to each of its 10 regions and its traditional manner of food production: beehives built into the walls of monasteries, house-sized conical bread ovens, hand-operated grape presses. Interspersed between interviews, maps and photographs are recipes just the other side of familiar: beet-green bread, green beans with walnut paste, mulberry and goat cheese salad."