On Sat, 28 Nov 2020 14:46:19 -0500, Boron Elgar wrote:

> On Sat, 28 Nov 2020 11:35:44 -0700, Graham > wrote:
>
>>On Sat, 28 Nov 2020 12:17:36 -0500, Boron Elgar wrote:
>
>>> Julia, herself, took that same laid back and accepting attitude during
>>> her series with famous chefs/cooks/bakers.
>>
>>I heard her being interviewd on CBC radio. Regarding food "snobbery" she
>>said that there was nothing wrong with a good hamburger. Then, when she was
>>asked what she would like for her last meal, she replied: "I think I'd
>>start with a half-dozen oysters and then some foie gras."
>
> Sounds like a great last meal to me. I will only eat raw oysters at a
> restaurant that I know does high traffic with them, and only had fois
> gras at restaurants a few times, but found it quite yummy. Since we
> have not dined inside a restaurant since February, I do miss seriously
> the oysters. I could skip the foie gras, though I like it, but I do
> not miss it like I do the oysters.
>
> According to the commentary during the Julia marathon PBS is running
> this weekend, her last meal was French onion soup.
>
> I have been standing in the kitchen all morning cooking and the
> marathon is on the TV in there. We had a small US Thanksgiving with
> immediate family and only 6 of us. I made pies for al over the
> place....chocolate 2-layer with pudding on the bottom and mousse on
> the top, and 3 lemon meringue pies, one to take where we ate (kids'
> dad/stepmother -we're all bubbled), one to send home with one kid
> whose spouse could not attend, and one to stay here.
>
> But we had lots of side dish leftovers, so I grabbed a small turkey
> from the market (easy to find on Friday...) to make here (my kid
> insists on brining and I prefer a dry rub, so I did not bring back
> turkey leftovers) today. You've heard of Little Christmas? Here's an
> epiphany....we're having Little Thanksgiving today.

Have you tried bread sauce yet? That's a UK tradition to go with the turkey
and is delicious.
PBS from Spokane, our normal source, isn't running the Julia programs and
later on will start one of their interminable money drives, which is also
filling up the Detroit PBS. Why the Calgary cable network offers Detroit
PBS is beyond me.