On Sat, 28 Nov 2020 12:59:42 -0700, Graham > wrote:

>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.

The UK has a tradition with somebody else's bird?