
When the Rain Came for Tbilisi, the Mtsvadi Still Burned
Flooding in the city of my birth is a reminder that Georgian cuisine was always built for endurance — not abundance.

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When the Rain Came for Tbilisi, the Mtsvadi Still Burned
Listen to Yelena Mirova's latest column.
Left a Michelin-starred kitchen in Milan to write about her grandmother's recipes. Her columns regularly make people cry and hungry simultaneously. Has strong opinions about khachapuri authenticity.
6 articles · ~25 min total reading

Flooding in the city of my birth is a reminder that Georgian cuisine was always built for endurance — not abundance.

A ceremonial kitchen rebuilt across centuries in Azerbaijan asks us what we already knew: that cooking was never just feeding.

Azerbaijan's restored land border and rail link with Georgia is more than logistics — it's a reunion of two kitchens that were never meant to be apart.