Tonight, we will be making the Julia Child beef bourguignon recipe showcased in the film Julia & Julie.
Two of our best friends are visiting from Ohio this weekend and so we decided to try the now-famous Julia Child beef bourguignon recipe from Mastering the Art of French Cooking. After seeing the movie Julie & Julia last Sunday with my mom, everyone thought it would be fun to give it a go.
We found that the Julia Child beef bourguignon recipe was being given away for free by the publisher of her magnum opus, so I thought I’d share them with you here. It sounds magnificent and, given that I’ve been away from New York for so long, I’m hoping it really does live up to expectations. (Although the Midwest is close to my heart, it lacks the culinary indulgences of the east and west coasts.)
This is going to be a welcome distraction from all of the site launches, the books, and the general business of growing a company from a start-up to empire. My parents are going to stop by later tonight to partake in the gastronomical experiment. If it’s as good as we think it will be, I’m going to rush out and buy a copy of the book. Giving this recipe away was a brilliant move by Knopf, the publishing house.
*Please note that the publisher of Mastering the Art of French Cooking included two auxiliary recipes called for in the beef bourguignon recipe. These are the sauteed mushrooms and brown-braised onions, both of which they have included in the PDF download. Show your appreciation to them by purchasing a copy of Mrs. Child’s cookbook!
I’ll update this post later and let you all know how it went. My expectations are high. In the meantime, as dinner is prepared, I’ve got work to do.
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Update: We had the beef bourguignon with boiled, buttered red potatoes and green peas with iced tea and it was awesome. That woman knew exactly what she was doing. It really is a great accomplishment. We are going to figure out how to try several of the recipes in Mastering the Art of French Cooking. I’ve already got a pretty good idea of what the next installment of dinner at Kennon Hall will be.
In 1953, a great movie starring Lauren Bacall, Bette Grable and Marilyn Monroe was released called How to Marry a Millionaire. I got curious as to how much money it would take to equal the same net worth today so I did an inflation adjustment because I wanted to know how big their motivation was in the film.
