Julia Childs was once asked how you pick out a “nice company roast.”
“First, make friends with your butcher.”
Adding sugar to tomato-based sauces to enhance the flavor: should you do it?
Childs said, “Yes, but only so much that when your dinner guests leave they're thinking: ‘That sauce had such a good tomato flavor. I wonder whether she didn’t add just a bit of sugar.’”
A magazine once asked her to give cooking advice in 20 words or less: “Use the best and freshest ingredients. Season a little at a time, tasting often as you go along.”
I love her cookbooks.
And everything I've learned about her as a person makes me wish I'd known her.
I once ate at her favorite "greasy spoon" in Yountville and it was fabulous.
ReplyDeletePerhaps as good as having JC make you a custom hamburger, fries, and fresh green beans.
For only $40. In 1997.
-AC