Supra: A feast of Georgian cooking Kindle Edition

I'd give a good four stars for the recipes themselves, and ONE star for the "American" edition. In some recipes, the translation of grams into ounces is so far off as to render the dish completely inedible -- for example, no, 70 grams of hot chili peppers is NOT equal to 7 ounces of hot chili peppers, and if you make the dish with 7 ounces of hot chili peppers you will be very, very unhappy. I like the recipes but the production....crap.

I share another reviewer’s concern about inaccurate transfers from metric measurement. According to this author, everything equals 7 ounces, whether it is 70 grams, 200 grams or 32 grams. In some places the amount listed for cups seems to be off by a cup. The recipes do look interesting and I plan on trying any number of them, especially some of the dips and pates. The cooking techniques are pretty straightforward and basic for the most part, but use your head when you are measuring ingredients because some of what is given here is not accurate.Most of the ingredients for the recipes are easily found in supermarkets. Walnuts and garlic would seem to be absolute necessitiesIn addition to the questions about the measurements for me at least there was a question about at least one of her equivalent ingredients for a pancake. She lists cornflour as the flour she uses and equates it to cornstarch for American readers. In my cupboard I have cornflour, cornmeal and cornstarch. I believe, but am not certain , that the author would use the cornmeal for her recipe if she as making it in the US.There are several places listed to buy Georgian ingredients in the back of the book. One of the American shops is for wines. The other two websites don’t seem to work, which is not the author’s fault. The one place where I did find the only two ingredients used in the book that I would not be able to find locally is Amazon. She lists Amazon UK for her British readers, but forgets to list Amazon USA for the Americans.The recipes do look good. and not too difficult to make for an average cook. Quite a few seem to include a sauce made with garlic and walnuts for almost any course but dessert. When planning a menu you need to imclude a few of the ones that don’t start off with those ingredients so everything won’t taste the same..Does anybody edit anymore? Some of the Ottolenghi books are even more of a mess than this one is.

I guess my expectations were way too high! The Georgian cooking is much more interesting,then this book shows! Why they could not give any great recipes of desserts from this country,this region!!! The desserts in this book are very European/American!!!(in YouTube and personal blogs you can discover so much more,I wish I didn’t have hoped for this books!!!)

I have all the English language Georgian cookbooks and books on Georgian food and wine culture and find "Supra" to be really underrated. No other Georgian cookbook covers as much in terms of recipes offered as Tuskadze's book. There is enough comment in the description to initiate a novice to Georgian cuisine and the recipes are easy to follow, a joy to read and work to result in authentic Georgian flavours. I have travelled the country of Georgia focusing in on regional dishes and within "Supra" I was overjoyed to find some of the less common recipes I had encountered there - and many more I never even found on offer on menus. If you are not obsessed with Georgian cuisine - unlike me - "Supra" will have you covered in providing an authentic array of Georgian starters, salads, soups, breads and cheese, meat dishes, poultry dishes, fish dishes, vegetable dishes and fruit dishes to keep you healthy and satisfied - and may even prompt you to book a ticket for a lengthy explore of the country itself!

Authentic, easy to follow, beautifully laid out. As one of the only accessible Georgian cookbooks in English, it is phenomenal. It offers comparable substitutions for hard-to-get ingredients that are shockingly similar to the real thing!If you’re unfamiliar with Georgian food, let me recommend that you turn to the Khatchapuri and Khinkali pages. They’ll change your life!

Unique and exciting cooking. Pairing with Georgian wines make you happy🍇

Haven't seen the hardback, but love the Kindle version. I am going to give the hardback as a gift as I like the book so well.

I made several of the recipes and they were all absolutely awesome.

Growing up in Russia Georgian food was something we ate on special occasions and in restaurants. For the past 20 years of living in the UK I've been trying to find a book of Georgian recipes but couldn't. I brought some back from Russia but they didn't work because some ingredients are impossible to find here and others are just different. Every time I travel to Russia I'd eat in Georgian restaurants and wonder just how the Brits have not yet discovered Georgian food! It is the most underrated cuisine in the world. It is totally delicious, full of flavour, fresh ingredients yet can be so easy to cook.Now this book fixed my problem. I am so glad I found it. For the past few days I've cooked every family meal from it and it worked. The recipes are carefully thought through, obviously well tested and, most importantly, changed to include the ingredients we can find in most supermarkets here. I did have to order a few special spice mixes but they were not expensive and available on a few websites (which were also recommended in the book). I love cooking and I owe a lot of cookery books. It is, however, very rare for me to be stuck on one or wanting to read it from cover to cover. Supra is different. I love the stories which are just long enough to capture imagination and sense the atmosphere, but not long enough to bore you. The sketches and photography accompanying the recipes are stylish and good quality. And most importantly, I've been wanting to cook every single recipe from it and I'm getting there.If you love Georgian food, fresh ingredients, herbs and spices, if you want to try something different and be pleasantly surprised, give this wonderful book a go.

My love for the Georgian food is when I have tasted in the restaurants in Moscow. One thing that I have learnt is that Moscow people love Georgian cooking and now I do. Always looking for new ideas for lovely cooking recipes that I can try out new and especially trying to re-create this lovely cuisines some how we have missed in the UK.The author does have a restaurant and in London and I am keen to try out however I have fallen in love with this book. The recipes are amazing and I have tried a couple of them and they have so far worked for me. I love their breads however not tried to make it but the use of walnuts in meat sauces is amazing. I would highly recommend this book if you would like to try something new and impress your family.

I bought this book, as I am a part time vegetarian and recently discovered that Georgian cuisine has a lot of very tasty veg options made with very easily accessible ingredients. The book exceeded all expectations! There are so many amazing recipes of very traditional Georgian dishes!There are also great lamb and chicken dishes and even desserts and puddings!The only thing I was not very keen on, is substituting suluguni cheese with feta and mozzarella. Living in London, I know of several places where to get suluguni. However, if you do use the substitute mix, get dry mozzarella or get moisture out of the normal one.

If you like fresh coriander and never know what to do with it, then this is the cookbook to have. Unusual recipes using a lot of fresh vegetables in unusual combinations, but not with loads of complicated and trendy fancy spices. An emphasis on food that will feed a family or a crowd without spending a fortune. Supra is the Georgian word for a feast that combines a lot of side dishes as well as a main one but many of the side dishes here are meals in themselves. Different and very appetising.

A beautiful book which really captures the essence of Georgian cooking. The recipes are easy to follow and although they do require the purchase of additional spices, these are easy to obtain online and give the food that unmistakable Georgian taste. Having eaten in many Russian restaurants which serve this cuisine, these recipes are the closest I've ever come to recreating the flavours and visual feast I experienced at the time. Highly recommended.