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Walnut sauce for a wedding
Recorded by Archive demonstration · Nino Tskitishvili · Tbilisi · Source language: Georgian
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Satsivi must cool. That is the whole argument of the dish. Nino grinds walnuts until they become a paste that can stand a spoon, then loosens it with the broth of the bird, garlic, marigold, a little cinnamon. Pomegranate seeds at the end, because the eye has to eat too.
She learned it from her aunt, who learned it for a wedding in Kakheti. Whether the sauce is older than the wedding or the wedding older than the sauce is not a question this kitchen asks.
A visiting cousin from Yerevan said the walnuts reminded her of a stuffing at home. Nino nodded. Mountains talk to each other, she said, even when people do not.
Original: მთები ერთმანეთს ელაპარაკებიან.
Transliteration · Mtebi ertmanets elaparakebian.
Original: Georgian
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Related dish · Recorded connection
SatsiviRelated person · Recorded connection
Nino TskitishviliSame family · Recorded connection
TskitishviliShared place · Recorded connection
თბილისიRelated oral history · Recorded connection
The sound of the cheese breadRelated oral history · Recorded connection
Friday yaprak, in the languages she actually spoke
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