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Gia's Mushrooms and Egg

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Photo by Elena Heatherwick

It was in the town of Signagi in the eastern Georgian region of Kakheti where I tried some of the most delicious and inventive, without being contrived, cooking. "Good food doesn’t have to be complicated, overworked," remarked Gia, head chef at an incredibly beautiful restaurant called Pheasant’s Tears. And I agree with him wholeheartedly. With a few wonderful ingredients, knowledge of tradition, and a creative mind like Gia's, Georgian cooking is taken to another level. This dish is so simple, but I would award it and the others that we tasted numerous stars and accolades. Just find excellent mushrooms, really good eggs, some aromatics, and a tiny bit of spice, and you have a beauty of a dish.

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