Here, to ring in this new year, is an ode to what should be the next great culinary star from the country of Georgia, the perfect vessel of unadorned cholesterol, the cosmic collision of flour, butter, egg and cheese: Khachapuri.

Links:

R&K weeklong culinary journeys: The League of Travelers

Georgian market tours: Meet Me Here Tbilisi

Mexico City Market Tours: Eat Like a Local

Market Tours everywhere else: Culinary Backstreets

Taste of Persia: A Cook's Travels Through Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Iran, and Kurdistan

Black Sea: Dispatches and Recipes, Through Darkness and Light

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