Country’s cuisine can tell you a lot about its culture and history, Georgia’s cuisine is as rich and varied as its history. Georgian’s still cherish ancient recipes of dishes such as Khinkali (meat dumplings) and Khachapuri (Cheese pie), two trademark dishes of the country. Both of those dishes are fairly simple, with five or less ingredients, however combined together they are better than all their parts.
Though Georgian cuisine is heavily concentrated on meat, as hunting and farming was always huge part of Georgian culture and history, especially in mountains, Georgia also offers lots of vegetarian and vegan dishes. Georgia’s variety of vegan dishes is fairly large, that mainly is because of the fasting in orthodox religion, which means eliminating all animal products. Lobiani, variety of Pkhali and Adjafsandali are perfect example for Georgia’s vegan culture.
Food and eating is also huge part of Georgia’s culture. When celebrating something, Georgian’s have a feast called “Supra”, on Supra you will encounter assortment of Georgian dishes. Every region has it’s one dish that is star of the Supra, in Kakheti it’s Mtsvadi (Georgian BBQ), in Samegrelo it’s Ghomi (corn and cheese dish), in Svaneti Kubdari (meat pie)
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