Spent most of the day with #culinarybackstreets. Our walk leader was Maka Shengelia—she was terrific. Maka, I’m sorry I didn’t post from Daphna—with the delicious khinkali or our wine tasting at #vinoground. Food and libations delectable!

We started the morning with tea and puri (bread). I think it was Imeretian khachapuri (round with cheese only on the inside). We ate so much that by the end of the day I kinda forgot exactly what we had eaten. Sorry, no pictures—we were too hungry.

After tea, we walked around, stopped for shotis puri (boat shaped, no cheese) and were able to catch the Rezo Gabriadze Marionette Theater clock tower show at 12/noon.

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Lunch at Cafe Leila. Pkhali. Kinda like vegetable pates—beet, carrot, spinach and eggplant. Served with mchadi (corn bread) to slather the pkhali on and cheese. Cheeses were sulguni, smoked sulguni and a Georgian (type of) cottage cheese. Also in our gobi (special wooden bowl for sharing) was pickled jonjoli (I think this is what she called it). Jonjoli is considered a delicacy amongst Georgian’s variety of pickled shoots from a bush (again, I think she call it a jonjoli bush). All topped with their beloved pepper and sprinkled with pomegranate seeds. Yum! Pass the pkhali, please.

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Supra at Sophia Melnikova’s Fantistic Dougan. Shkmeruli, chicken in a garlic milk sauce. We all loved it, including the cats.

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Last evening with Lindsay and Sam.

I’ll post again in a few days. Good night.