
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.

Paravani trout soup
There are few culinary cases that really surprise me and one of those are a fish culture in Georgian culinary. Even though we have the Black Sea, numerous lakes and rivers and a huge variety of seafood, somehow we only stick to no more that 4-5 species of fish. Even the fish recipes are quite a few in our reality. Considering the huge potential of the Georgian water resources and their dwellers, I'd like to encourage Georgians to prepare more fish. In order to make the inception easy I'm starting with this trout soup recipe - a light, aromatic dish, which will prepare your moods for the upcoming spring. I’ve learned this recipe from a Paravani Lake fisherman and refined a little, so let me share it with you.

Aspiki or muzhuzhi
First of all I want to stress that this dish is coming from Georgia and is already counting at least 3 centuries of existence. In Russia it came from France and like everything French, 19th century Russian high society took it enthusiastically and made it its own. The basis of this dish is collagen extracted from animal bones and tissues. Hydrolyze turns it into condensing gelatin. To leave the biochemistry aside, condensation can be done with simply boiling bony meat hard. Add some aromatic ingredients to the broth and voila - you get a nice jelly including all those pleasant tastes and scents, that a delicious soup has, but in a way comfortable form for eating.


Mineral water Borjomi



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