Markets, Georgia 9 – 6/2014

December 2, 2016

Years ago when we traveled in Mexico, we used to laugh at people coming south with their motorhomes or campers full of canned food, on the assumption that people in Mexico didn’t have anything to eat. Now, as we travel through some of the most remote countries in the world, some may wonder how do we survive? What’s for dinner?

You may see some interesting answers in the photos below as we traveled through the country of Georgia. There may be twenty ladies selling tomatoes, onions, beets, peppers, cabbage and more than you can imagine. The question is, who has the best? What does the cheese taste like? Can we taste? Of course!! Is it “moo”, (cow) or “baa”, (goat)? Is that meat pig “oink-oink”, or moo? Seriously, the biggest problem of finding food in these countries is limiting our selection to what we can use in the next few days, because little roadside stands are often selling the same as we drive along.

When we’re home in California, people ask how we cook on the road. The answer is, exactly the same as we do here, except often the selection of food is better and fresher that your local supermarket.

: The displays in the market places are often very pretty to attract the customers.

: Start off with spices, many that you buy in jars from the grocery store. Here they buy them by the gram.

: Meat markets are not exactly what you find at the local supermarket but everything is pretty fresh.

: This lady was so amazed that we were buying her black beans, she had difficulties calculating the price so her neighbor jumped in to help.

: The biggest problem in shopping for vegetables is finding which lady or man has the best of what you are searching for.

: It’s hard for Monika to resist brooms and baskets.

: While in Russia in 1996, we were fascinated with these brooms and called them Russian vacuum cleaners. Most people used them to clean their houses.