Mama's is a small, simple place where you can find excellent home-style American dishes like roast chicken and meatloaf and superb vegetables.
It's superb with vegetables but meant for fish.
They would have to abandon their magnificent fruits and vegetables, superb cheeses and foie gras, prize-winning olive oil, succulent lamb and pristine oysters.
Back when Georgia — a country bordered by the Black Sea and the Caucasus Mountains — was behind the Iron Curtain, it was fancied the California of the U.S.S.R. Slightly smaller in size than South Carolina, but with impressively diverse terrain, this fertile country had a reputation for producing exceptional fruits and vegetables, superb wines and talented filmmakers.
The market is also the spot to stock up on home-grown vegetables and superb fruit: big fat peaches, apricots and plums, piles of tiny dried figs and yards of plaited garlic bulbs, home-made cheeses and cakes.
A sharp hill, valuable because it insulates the house from the country road behind it, is now a little too close to the house, but it has now been cut back a few more feet to allow for well-delineated stone walkway from the driveway into the kitchen, a shortcut for new owners laden with fresh vegetables and superb French wines.
Vegetables are superb, like sugar snap peas ($8 a pound) that live up to their name, sweet, snappy and delicious; delicate, lightly herbed haricots verts ($9 a pound) that just barely go crunch in the mouth; and sweet, juicy marinated beets ($7 a pound).
Harira, an earthy vegetable soup, is superb.
(The home-made Farmer's Market vegetable soup was superb).
Because although Avila does amazing things with meat and seafood, his vegetable cooking is superb.
