Five Dishes From Around the World You Should Try With Culture Trip

Cheese and bread. It’s a combination that hasn’t failed us for centuries, a perfect example of the delicious creations that have spawned from basic, working class cooking practices from an age when you made-do with the ingredients you had. Most countries have some kind of variation of the bread-cheese combo – pizza, enchiladas, the humble cheese toasty – but few countries have hit the sweet spot quite like Georgia, who mastered the art with khachapuri sometime in the 12th century (probably). Since then it has embedded itself deeply into the heart of Georgian culture, so much so that the khachapuri index is used as a measure of domestic inflation – as if making it the national dish wasn’t enough. We’ll take you for an incredible khachapuri on the first full day of our Georgia and the Caucasus itinerary. We suspect that won’t be your last across the nine-day getaway…