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Paul Rimple
Aug 10, 20246 min read
Khashlama Chasers
Nothing better than a platter of khashlama after meeting a renegade Kakhetian tornado It took the tornado fifteen minutes to hit us from...
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Paul Rimple
Sep 2, 20235 min read
Poliphonia: A Reason to celebrate
I want to say that like so many first meetings in Georgia, I met John Wurdeman at a supra, but the truth is I met him a couple hours...
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Paul Rimple
Apr 17, 20232 min read
Blue Fox - As Fine As Tbilisi Dining Gets
Chef Jaume wants to feed people, not give them coronaries.
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Paul Rimple
Apr 4, 20239 min read
A Deep Dive Into Tbilisi's Dezerter’s Bazaar
"...You are our guests. I am head of the pick-pocket’s union, nobody will bother you.”
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Paul Rimple
Mar 1, 20233 min read
Tastes Like a Zugdidi Wedding: Qartuli Restaurant
* Sponsored Content Last week I walked through the revolving door at the Ambassadori Hotel and was greeted by an attractive hostess who...
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Paul Rimple
Oct 20, 20227 min read
Dinner With The Draft Dodgers
Russia's invasion of Ukraine has made victims of all of us. Soviet monument to Russian-Georgian friendship on the Russian Military...
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Paul Rimple
Feb 21, 20226 min read
Flashback: A Cossack Black Sea Cruise
With a Russian invasion of Ukraine imminent, my thoughts go back to more innocent days, when Crimea was Ukrainian, Yalta was an open...
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Paul Rimple
Jan 12, 20227 min read
A Cop Shop Christmas
I should have been putting the Christmas turkey in the oven. Instead, I was at the Ortachala police station. Two nights earlier, three...
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Paul Rimple
Nov 9, 202113 min read
A Letter To Jeremiah Tower
Paul Rimple working brunch with Christine Bradley at The Deer Park Tavern.
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Paul Rimple
Oct 25, 20214 min read
BLACK SEA DIARY
How China Spiced Up My Black Sea Holiday Part 2: Hot Pot Port In 2003 Batumi was a down at the heels port town and the home of a little...
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Paul Rimple
Oct 18, 20213 min read
black sea diary
How China Spiced Up My Black Sea Holiday. Part 1: Bean Clams Kaprovani is a community of beach rentals snuggled in a seaside pine forest...
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