Episode 2: Chacha Divine

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12/07/21 • 15 min

Now that it's cold and flu (and COVID) season, it's time for Georgia's Dayquil of the gods: the pomace brandy called Chacha. Host of The Trip Nathan Thornburgh explains its appeal.

Seize the chacha by Ansel Mullins

Nikalas Marani on IG

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Now that it's cold and flu (and COVID) season, it's time for Georgia's Dayquil of the gods: the pomace brandy called Chacha. Host of The Trip Nathan Thornburgh explains its appeal.

Seize the chacha by Ansel Mullins

Nikalas Marani on IG

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Previous Episode

Episode 1: A New Season

The Trip from Roads & Kingdoms and host Nathan Thornburgh is back, with a tight new format, plus lots of distilled alcohol and Soviet helicopters in Georgia's Caucasus Mountains.

The Light of the Caucasus: Photographs by Yuri Kozyrev

Georgia: Q&A with Photographer Natela Grigalashvili

Abkhazia: Paradise Lost

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Next Episode

Episode 3: Khachapuri Love

Here, to ring in this new year, is an ode to what should be the next great culinary star from the country of Georgia, the perfect vessel of unadorned cholesterol, the cosmic collision of flour, butter, egg and cheese: Khachapuri.

Links:

R&K weeklong culinary journeys: The League of Travelers

Georgian market tours: Meet Me Here Tbilisi

Mexico City Market Tours: Eat Like a Local

Market Tours everywhere else: Culinary Backstreets

Taste of Persia: A Cook's Travels Through Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Iran, and Kurdistan

Black Sea: Dispatches and Recipes, Through Darkness and Light

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