FAO Regional Office for Europe and Central Asia

Georgian red wheat bread revives tradition and sparks agritourism potential

01/02/2022

When Zaza Ivanidze and his wife, Tinatin Chilingarashvili, first baked bread using flour from the ancient and endangered, local red wheat variety, akhaltsikhe tsiteli doli, on his tiny farm in Georgia, he found the taste took him on a nostalgic journey into the past.