Introduction to the Foodways of Georgia

Abstract

This article’s theme is an introduction to the foodways of Georgia,the main purpose of the research is to scientific way map out thefoodways of Georgia and its origins. The research project is still inits infancy so the author throughout the paper, consequently discussesthe staple foodstuff in today’s Georgia such as wine, bread,Khachapuri and Khinkali. The author research method is interdisciplinarywhere different sources are used such as artefacts, historicalwritten sources (for example, receipts, cookery books,narrative stories, accounts, agricultural texts, lists), photographs(past and present) and oral sources (such as interviews with localhousekeepers). The author also stresses the importance of workingin an interdisciplinary way, in order to get a wider, broader answerto the asked questions instead of just working with one source.