Who Wants To Cook With Julia Child?

Well, I do – and I will follow her to the wildest areas of cuisine, because she was fearless! That said, a new blogger I now follow religiously, Rebecca, has a terrific website “Taking Up Room” – and she shares a wide range of stories about movies, TV and more – and she decided to watch and review an episode of Julia Child’s cooking show on PBS from the 60’s:

Well, it was a different time then: a time of chicken livers, and beef tongue and much much more…and here is how Rebecca begins her story:

“Vegetarians and anyone who’s squeamish may want to take evasive action. I won’t be offended, I promise. In fact, you have my sympathies.

So yeah, now that you all have been warned, it’s time to get the ickiness out of the way, at least I hope so, and we’re going to start with the ickiest of all: Brains. Feel free to make zombie noises.

Oh, and this episode, which was originally broadcast on June 15, 1966, also looks at sweetbreads, which I’ve heard are pretty tasty, but I’m not going to break my No Organ Meat streak to find out. Anywhoo…”

Let me just say that Sweetbreads are a favorite of mine, Rebecca!

Click here for some vintage cooking clips and a funny and insightful review!

What Rebecca didn’t know is that her great blog post would inspire me to remind everyone of the time I ate brains!

Bring On The Brains!

Yes, that is what you are looking at – and my wife and I ate it. The Clown Bar in Paris has this unique dish, and my wife Alex wanted us to have it, so we did!

As Eater described it:

“These aren’t brains — this is a brain, whole and unmissable. Served in a chilled dashi spiked with soy, ginger, and yuzu, the whole thing is eaten with a spoon.”

They said use a spoon. So we did. And it was delicious. Imagine a texture like a flan and a taste like savory bone marrow.

Oh, and our next dish that night was a “Foie Gras / Wagyu” Beef Wellington!

This was a magnificent meal – incredibly flavorful and beautifully presented – foie is another controversial ingredient and wagyu is perhaps the most overused word on a menu these days, but the dish was incredible, and we plan to go back to The Clown Bar the next time we are in Paris – and the restaurant is in fact in an old bar that sat next to a auditorium where Clowns performed!

I have two other tales to share about Julia Child – one involving a “once in a lifetime” chance to cook where she cooked!

This is Chef / Cookbook Author Patricia Wells with us at her house in Provence…and that is the stove that her close friend Julia Child gave her before she died…and I cooked on it!

Click here for our cooking adventure!

Also, I have cooked a number of dishes from Julia’s cookbook – and this is perhaps the most beautiful of all!

I replicated her iconic “boeuf bourguignon” recipe and you can see me do it with instructions by clicking on my story here:

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