VIDEO: Georgian gastronomy - Kakheti | ქართული გასტრონომია - კახეთი

The USAID/Georgia Economic Security Program, in partnership with The Gastronomic Association of Georgia, started a new project “Discover Georgian Gastronomy”. Within the project mini-movie series will be produced on Georgian Regional Gastronomy & Destinations. The main idea of the project is to shine a spotlight on 6 different regions of Georgia with its unique gastronomic traditions - it’s all about exploration and discovery of the hidden gastronomy gems of the country.

The video series is meant to become vehicles to paint the country of Georgia as a beautiful and accessible destination on the frontier of food and dining in the webspace and different online platforms and to promote its rich gastronomic heritage. A destination is highlighted through Georgian famous influencer Chefs discovering a region’s full culinary ecosystem from terroir, produce and cuisine to artisanal producers, bazaars, local experts, home cooks, and colorful Georgian feast traditions.

Project authors/ Screenplay: Gastronomic Association of Georgia
Creative/ Art directions/ Food styling: Gastronaut

VIDEO: Georgian gastronomy - Svaneti | ქართული გასტრონომია - სვანეთი

The USAID/Georgia Economic Security Program, in partnership with The Gastronomic Association of Georgia, started a new project “Discover Georgian Gastronomy”. Within the project mini-movie series will be produced on Georgian Regional Gastronomy & Destinations. The main idea of the project is to shine a spotlight on 6 different regions of Georgia with its unique gastronomic traditions - it’s all about exploration and discovery of the hidden gastronomy gems of the country.

The video series is meant to become vehicles to paint the country of Georgia as a beautiful and accessible destination on the frontier of food and dining in the webspace and different online platforms and to promote its rich gastronomic heritage. A destination is highlighted through Georgian famous influencer Chefs discovering a region’s full culinary ecosystem from terroir, produce and cuisine to artisanal producers, bazaars, local experts, home cooks, and colorful Georgian feast traditions.

Project authors/ Screenplay: Gastronomic Association of Georgia
Creative/ Art directions/ Food styling: Gastronaut

VIDEO: Georgian gastronomy - Meskheti | ქართული გასტრონომია - მესხეთი

The USAID/Georgia Economic Security Program, in partnership with The Gastronomic Association of Georgia, started a new project “Discover Georgian Gastronomy”. Within the project mini-movie series will be produced on Georgian Regional Gastronomy & Destinations. The main idea of the project is to shine a spotlight on 6 different regions of Georgia with its unique gastronomic traditions - it’s all about exploration and discovery of the hidden gastronomy gems of the country.

The video series is meant to become vehicles to paint the country of Georgia as a beautiful and accessible destination on the frontier of food and dining in the webspace and different online platforms and to promote its rich gastronomic heritage. A destination is highlighted through Georgian famous influencer Chefs discovering a region’s full culinary ecosystem from terroir, produce and cuisine to artisanal producers, bazaars, local experts, home cooks, and colorful Georgian feast traditions.

Project authors/ Screenplay: Gastronomic Association of Georgia
Creative/ Art directions/ Food styling: Gastronaut

The USAID/Georgia Economic Security Program, in partnership with The Gastronomic Association of Georgia, started a new project “Discover Georgian Gastronomy”. Within the project mini-movie series will be produced on Georgian Regional Gastronomy & Destinations. The main idea of the project is to shine a spotlight on 6 different regions of Georgia with its unique gastronomic traditions - it’s all about exploration and discovery of the hidden gastronomy gems of the country.

The video series is meant to become vehicles to paint the country of Georgia as a beautiful and accessible destination on the frontier of food and dining in the webspace and different online platforms and to promote its rich gastronomic heritage. A destination is highlighted through Georgian famous influencer Chefs discovering a region’s full culinary ecosystem from terroir, produce and cuisine to artisanal producers, bazaars, local experts, home cooks, and colorful Georgian feast traditions.

BOOK: The Gold of Sakdrisi: Man's first gold mining enterprise (Veröffentlichungen aus dem Deutschen Bergbau-Museum Bochum) (Georgisch) Gebundene Ausgabe. Von Thomas Stöllner & Irina Gambashidze

This bilingual volume deals with the investigation and significance of the more than 5,000-year-old gold mine in Kachagiani Hill near Sakdrisi, Georgian Republic, which was explored in 2004-13 and destroyed in 2014. It contains a foreword by the General Director of the Georgian National Museum, sixteen scientific contributions, a find catalogue, and a bibliography. The papers deal with the twelve years of the Georgian-German Sakdrisi-Expedition, the Caucasus as ore mountains, the geology of the ore-deposits at Sakdrisi, the mine and its excavation, the structural and archaeological evidence from the mine, an experimental approach to the mining of hard-rock deposits, the mining tools from Sakdrisi, the accommodation of miners on Dzedzvebi Plateau, the Kura-Araxes settlement in area II/III, the Kura-Araxes graves and a spectacular monument nearby, gold mining as a ritual activity in area II/III, the amount of mined gold and the mining methods, the chalcolithic ancestors from a settlement on the southern plateau, the features of the late 2nd and early 1st millennium B.C. as well as the futile campaign for the conservation of the gold mine.

Salz, Kupfer, Gold: Früher Bergbau im Kaukasus (vorher Gold in Georgien)

Reviewed Work: The Gold of Sakdrisi: Man‘s First Gold Mining Enterprise / საყდრისის ოქრო: კაცობრიობის პირველი ოქროს სამთო წარმოება. Veröffentlichungen aus dem Deutschen Bergbau-Museum Bochum 211 by Irina Gambashidze, Thomas Stöllner. Review by: Christoph Schwall, Archaeologia Austriaca, Vol. 102 (2018), pp. 256-260

REISEBUCH: 40 Tage Aserbaidschan – Unterwegs zwischen Kaukasus und Kaspischem Meer. Von Constanze John

»Jeder sagt etwas anderes über Aserbaidschan. Und kaum einer war dort. (...) Für mich ist die Reise beschlossene Sache. Ich werde alles mit eigenen Augen sehen.«

Nach ihren Reisen durch Armenien und Georgien ist nun Aserbaidschan, gelegen zwischen Kaspischem Meer und Kaukasus, das Ziel von Constanze John. Es ist ihre eigentlich erste Reise durch den Orient. Eigentlich, da sie bereits als Kind durch das Vorlesen ihrer Mu&er durch den Orient gereist ist und sie bis heute Geschichten liebt. Constanze John möchte einen persönlichen Blick auf das Land werfen und vollendet mit 40 Tage Aserbaidschan – Unterwegs zwischen Kaukasus und Kaspischem Meer ihre Südkaukasus-Trilogie. 

In Aserbaidschan leben über 10 Millionen Einwohner auf einer Gesamtfläche von 86.600 Quadratkilometern. Von der Hauptstadt Baku aus startet die Autorin in die einzelnen Regionen des Landes: "Endlich kommt die Silhouette der Zwei-Millionen-Stadt Baku in unser Blickfeld. Kaum vorzustellen, dass dies noch vor zweihundert Jahren eine Stadt in der Wüste gewesen sein soll." Ihre Reise führt sie von der dortigen Glitzerwelt zu mystischen Welterbestätten und beeindruckenden Nationalparks. Sie erlebt einen Schmelztiegel von Nationen und Kulturen, eine Mischung aus Orient und Sowjetvergangenheit.

Die Autorin erlebt eine große Gastfreundschaft und beschenkt den Leser mit tiefen Einblicken in ein Land zwischen Orient und Okzident. 40 Tage Aserbaidschan – Unterwegs zwischen Kaukasus und Kaspischem Meer gibt erstmals Innenansichten nicht nur von der Geschichte und Kultur, sondern auch von Spiritualität und Alltag des Landes wieder.

Constanze John, 1959 in Leipzig geboren, studierte Germanistik, Geschichte und Pädagogik und absolvierte ein Fernstudium am Literaturinstitut in Leipzig. Sie schreibt als Autorin für Theater, Oper und Hörfunk. Für ihr Schreiben wurde sie mit dem renommierten Johann-Gottfried-Seume-Literaturpreis ausgezeichnet. Im DuMont Reiseverlag sind bisher 40 Tage Armenien (2015) und 40 Tage Georgien (2018) erschienen.

Constanze John: 40 Tage Aserbaidschan – Unterwegs zwischen Kaukasus und Kaspischem Meer
386 Seiten, Format 13,5 x 21,0 cm
Preis: € 16,95 (D) / 18,50 (A) / 23,90 (CH)
ISBN: 978-3-7701-8299-2
Erscheinungstermin: 08. September 2020

Natalie Pilz
Presse und Öffentlichkeitsarbeit
DuMont Reiseverlag
n.pilz@mairdumont.com
Tel.: 0711 4502-4242
www.dumontreise.de

BOOK: Ethnography and Folklore of the Georgia-Chechnya Border. Images, Customs, Myths & Folk Tales of the Peripheries. By Shorena Kurtsikidze & Vakhtang Chikovani

The aim of this book is to acquaint a wide audience with the traditional culture of the Christian and Muslim highlanders who live on the border of Europe and Asia in the central part of the Caucasus Main Mountain Range. Under one cover, the publication features unique materials on visual anthropology, ethnography, mythology, and folklore of the region. The book portrays the mysterious subgroup of Georgian highlanders, the Khevsur, who are considered to be the champions of Georgian patriotism and at the same time, according to one popular theory, are believed to be direct descendants of the last Crusaders. Featuring 158 black and white original photographs and accompanying explanatory texts, the publication gives a detailed description of the exotic religious institutions and examples of material culture of this group of highlanders, illustrating the closeness of their lifestyle to the ways of the Frankish crusaders. The emphasis is on the spheres of folk culture that bear clear traces of centuries of confrontations between two ethnic groups: Christian Georgian highlanders and their neighbors, Muslim Vainakh or Chechen and Ingush. The authors attempt to show how the traditional mode of life of the highlanders affects the contemporary ethnic and political situation in the region. The publication includes original translations of Georgian folk tales and myths. The latter are narratives representing mythologized chronicles of “holy wars” of old times once carried out on the border of Europe and Asia by the ancestors of the Khevsurs. Shorena Kurtsikidze and Vakhtang Chikovani are cultural anthropologists and natives of Georgia. They have been teaching the Georgian language, culture, and folklore courses at the University of California, Berkeley. Both authors are affiliates of the Institute of Slavic, East European and Eurasian Studies at the same university and regularly give talks and public lectures about Georgia and the Caucasus.

Link: amazon.de

NEW ALBUM: 1227 m. above the sea - by Stumari

The nation of Georgia is not often associated with progressive music (SINATLIS TSELITSADI being a rare exception). But in STUMARI progressive folk music fans can find a band that delivers traditional Georgian folk themes revitalized by progressive, classical and chamber influences. The band was formed in 2002 and has a pair of studio recordings to their credit. The band is characterized by both acoustic regional instrumentation and electronic sounds, as well as enchanting vocals woven within bucolic, lengthy instrumental passages.