Directed by a senior vasta waza over rows of dug-earth walnut- and fruitwood-fired trenches, apprentices hand-pound fresh lamb on curved stone slabs with wooden mallets (tchoonth) for hours to form silky rista and gushtaba emulsions without mechanical grinders. 1
Served to groups of four guests sharing a patterned copper trami platter preceded by hand-washing from the tash-t-nari ewer. 1
