Lemony Chicken Soup

One of the best descriptions of the Georgian proclivity to rhapsodize over food is found in the novella Is This a Man? by the nineteenth-century writer and revolutionary Ilya Chavchavadze. Here, with considerable irony, Chavchavadze portrays the daily routines of Prince Luarsab Tatkaridze and his wife Daredzhan. The couple enjoys an unusually compatible relationship revolving mainly around food, but at times their intimacy dissolves into discor