This is a story about my experience making the unique Georgian cheese, tenili, in summer 2023. I rolled up to the village Andriatsminda, in rural Meskheti region of Georgia, with vague directions from Trevor AKA Milk Trekker, in search of one of the last remaining families of tenili cheesemakers. Spotting Continue Reading
A Tour to Remember
I turn sideways and push my edges into the ground as hard as I can, bringing a mountain’s worth of momentum to a full stop in a fraction of a second and filling the air with light, sparkling powder. The snow flakes slowly fall back to the ground like confetti Continue Reading
First Impressions from Gudauri
I stumbled across the border into Georgia without a clue what I was getting myself into or how to even get to Gudauri, the resort town in the Caucasus Mountains in northeast Georgia, where I was going to be a ski instructor for the winter. I’m not talking about Atlanta, Continue Reading