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Introduction to the Foodways of Georgia
Ulrica Söderlind
Stockholm University 
his article’s theme is an introduction to the foodways of Georgia,
the main purpose of the research is to scientific way map out the
foodways of Georgia and its origins. The research project is still in
its infancy so the author throughout the paper, consequently  dis-
cusses the staple foodstuff in today’s Georgia such as wine, bread,
Khachapuri and Khinkali. The author research method is interdis-
ciplinary where different sources are used such as 
artefacts
, his-
torical written sources (for example, receipts, cookery books,
narrative stories, accounts, agricultural texts, lists)
, photographs
(past and present) and oral sources (such as interviews with local
housekeepers). The author also stresses the importance of working
in an interdisciplinary way, in order to get a wider, broader answer
to the asked questions instead of just working with one source. 
qarTuli sakvebis tradicia 
ulrika soderlindi
stokholmis universiteti
m statiis Tema warmoadgens qarTuli sakvebis tradiciis
Sesavals. kvlevis ZiriTadi mizania mecnierulad
gansazRvros qarTuli sakvebis tradicia da misi warmoSoba.
kvlevis proeqti jer sawyis stadiaSia, ris gamoc avtori
ganixilavs mxolod dRevandeli saqarTvelos ZiriTad
sakveb produqtebs, rogorebicaa Rvino, puri, xaWapuri da
xinkali. avtoris kvlevis meTodi interdisciplinarulia,
sadac gamoiyeneba sxvadasxva wyaroebi, rogorebicaa arte-
faqtebi, istoriuli werilobiTi wyaroebi (magaliTad, re-
ceptebi, kulinariuli wignebi, naratiuli wyaroebi,
aRricxvebi, agrokulturuli teqstebi, siebi), foto
masala (Zveli da axlandeli) da zepirsityvieri wyaroebi
(magaliTad, interviuebi adgilobriv ojaxis diasaxliseb-
Tan. dasmuli SekiTxvebisaTvis ufro farTo pasuxebis
gasacemad, avtori xazs usvams interdisciplinaruli gziT
muSaobas.
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Introduction
According to a Georgian legend, God took a supper break while he was
creating the world. He became so involved in his meal that by accident, he
tripped over the high peaks of the Caucasus and as a result he spilled his own
food onto the land below. The land below blessed with the scarps of Heavens
table was Georgia.  This article is about a newly started project the working
name of that is “Foodways of Georgia”, as the working name indicates the re-
search field is to map out  in a scientific way the foodways of Georgia and its
origins.
Method and Theory
The project is carried out in a highly interdisciplinary manner where dif-
ferent kinds of sources are used such as: artefacts, historical written sources
(for example, receipts, cookery books, narrative stories, accounts, agricultural
texts, lists), photographs (past and present) and oral sources (such as inter-
views with local housekeepers). As an archaeologist I have learned and been
taught to interpret minutiae of human relics as evidence of lives once lived
and as a historian I am well accustomed to work with written sources and
photographs as indices of culture. As I see it, interdisciplinary work gives a
broader, deeper and more complex picture and answer to the asked ques-
tion/s in a study then just limited oneself to one type of source. Most of the
times the different kinds of sources do not tell the same story or history to the
asked question/s and from my point of view that is what makes working dy-
namic in an interdisciplinary way. This is especially true for the Caucasus re-
gion with its complex pre-history (Bukhrashvili, 2003. pp. 226-227).
Culinary art in the life of Georgians in the past and present is fundamen-
tal in the research and by combining different kind of sources it serves the
method very well to work in an interdisciplinary way. 
The theoretical framework for the research is based on a created theory
that is called “homo gastronomicus”. A lot of factors are of vital importance for
the reasons and choices  the human being makes in her diet throughout
his/her entire life. In short these factors are on a personal level; need,
physique, nourishment, efficiency, edibility, tradition, ideology, technology,
availability, distance, economy, regulations, influences (that are professional,
commercial and social), geographical and mental borders, philosophy, the five
senses, heritage from childhood, social structure, social class, gender, utensils
(Söderlind 2005, p 21-47).
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