Monday, September 19, 2011

The Joy

of Cooking.

Have you ever read it?

I don't mean the new fancy one, but rather the old one.
-The one that teaches you how to cook squirrel and porcupine.
- The one that provides a recipe for onions stuffed with sauerkraut, and notes as a subtitle: Not for a ladies' luncheon.
- The one in which the authors wax poetic about charlottes: "How dull seem the charlottes of our youth, with only a cream and a cherry, when compared with those put together in the sophisticated society we now seem to frequent!".
- The one that teaches you how to make as well as to pronounce vichyssoise: "This leek soup may be served hot or very cold. Yes, the last 's' *is* pronounced, like a 'z', but most Americans shun it, in a 'genteel' way, as though it were virtuous to ignore it."

It's great! Someday if I win the lottery and am done traveling the world, I may cook my way through this cookbook, just like Julie did with Julia's book. Muskrats might be hard to find by that time though...

6 comments:

Squirrel said...

I've read the new one (not cover to cover, but much of it), and I agree, it's not nearly as entertaining as the original. I do have recipes for racoons and squirrels (!) elsewhere, though.

laura b. said...

I'm no cook but I'd be willing to read that for the fun of it :)

Pamela said...

Squirrel, hadn't thought of that!! Would you rather be boiled, fried, sauteed, poached, or baked?

Laura, it's fun to find the tidbits!

Mel said...

LOL

It is a treasure!
And lemme know when you might need a muscrat or two.

<-- lives near a river.....or six

Mrs. Hairy Woman said...

We have an older version and then a few years ago we bought a revised edition and the funny thing is that a few of the recipes have been actually revised too and so it makes it difficult to follow what goes in Pancakes..lol

Squirrel said...

Oh, I think I'd prefer to be pickled, thank you very much...