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The Svan answer to khachapuri — a round, golden bread parcel sealed around spiced minced meat (traditionally beef or pork, sometimes lamb), heady with caraway, blue fenugreek, and the slow heat of the Svan-spice mix. Cut into wedges, it's mountain food at its most assertive: dense, fragrant, and the dish every traveler discovers — and obsesses over — on the way to Mestia.