Chef
Luka Nachkebia
Everything around us works through the laws of physics and chemistry and if you ask me - culinary is a science. I am a scientist, a food technologist and I try to create art work in the form of delicious food using organic chemistry, biochemistry and physics.Though, apart from science culinary involves a good deal of emotions. I try to evoke emotions, curiosity and revive memories stored deeply in our minds. That's what I share with my students at the Agrarian University Culinary Academy.
Bream with spinach
Georgia has lots of rivers, lakes, reservoirs, and at the same time a great sea coast line but still we don't have a coulture of cooking fish. After reading these phrases there must appear a person, whose family has a lot of recepies of making fish dishes, survived from the ancestors. I want to tell this person: - You are one in a million and, we mortals, do not respect fish enough. So, I decided to show my respect: today we'll cook the Black Sea Bream (the same Black Sea crucian carp), with tasty white flesh and a pleasant aroma.
Polenta and mushroom salad
I love cornmeal and I love corn, but I hate monotony. Maize is the second largest yield in the world. Approximately 823 million tons are harvested annually. There are mostly three types of corn spread in the world – yellow, white and blue. Blue and yellow corn is rare in Georgia, but we do have white corn. There are many ways of grinding it, however, we only have coarse ground “Gherghili” and cornmeal in Georgia. The texture of Polenta, “Ghomi” of Italians, is rather lighter and pleasant, as it is equally milled. Sadly Georgians do no pay much attention to it.
Mineral water Borjomi
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Georgian Gastronomical Adventure
