And then his wife proudly produced the food - boiled potatoes, boiled green vegetables and ham, boiled ham.

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At lunch I sipped a glass of the rich, fruity stuff along with a delicious meal of baked beans (lobia), fried potatoes, eggplant, green leeks, and puffy Georgian flat bread -- all homemade, all home-grown.

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The iron stove had a cast-iron warmer on the top, and in that warmer would be pork roasts and pork chops and fried chicken, two gallon pots of butter beans with salt pork, navy beans with ham bone, rattlesnake beans glistening with bacon fat, pans of chicken and dressing, macaroni and cheese, cornbread and cathead biscuits, mounds of mashed potatoes and sweet potatoes, skillets of fried green tomatoes.

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On the kitchen table his lunch awaited him, a plate covered with an inverted plate to keep warm: chicken, mashed potatoes, cooked carrots, and green beans.

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Put as simply as possible, it advocated eating from all food groups every day -- two cups of fruit and two and a half cups of vegetables a day, including veggies both dark green (kale, broccoli) and orange (carrots, squash), starches (potatoes, corn), and "other" (artichokes, green beans).

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In the chef's second Slow Food Fast contribution, seared spring onions, boiled new potatoes, a soft-boiled egg and plump, sweet peas top a pool of creamy, herbal green goddess dressing.

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Around our house, when not infected by the Birdseye plague, real food often meant chicken-fried steak with mashed potatoes and cream gravy, sugar peas, field peas, black-eyed peas, lima beans, green beans, all greens, ambrosia, okra, corn, tomato aspic, squash casseroles, pot roast, fried fish, chicken and dumplings, hot rolls, biscuits, cornbread, cakes, pies, fudge, divinity and Mama's homemade vegetable soup, which was world famous in our family.

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Favorites: roasted stuffed chicken with garlic mashed potatoes and a wild-mushroom jus, and poached skate in a spring garlic broth with potato gnocchi and green asparagus.

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