This cookbook captures the cuisine of Soviet Georgia in more than 100 traditional recipes, including dishes such as mtsvadi (skewered lamb), kupati (meat sausage), tolmas (stuffed grape leaves), kada (Georgian kweet bread), and pakhlava kartulat (Georgian bakhlava). More than just a cookery book, this text is rich with lore, lifestyle, history and the unique cultural and religious traditions of Soviet Georgia. Including sections on special ingredients, with American equivalents, Georgian wines, and the rituals of the Georgian table and the tamada (toastmaster).