When you have only the minimum to spend, Julia Child encourages you to shop around for bargains and seasonal specials, and have a party with eggplant pizza and a casserole of mixed vegetables and giblets sauteed with a Mediterranean twist.
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38 Comments
Well, in 2025, $2 will buy you a cheap can of wet dog food.
okay, how much in 2025? LOVE YOU JULIA!
You could still do the eggplant appetizer today. Current price of an eggplant 🍆: $1.50
Inflation is the pits!
Ya you're not get that for cheap now days!!!!😂😂😂😂 with all vegetables and fruits being recalled month after month!!!
That meal didn't include the cost of the loaf of bread or olives, or the butter and oil, or the veggies other than the aubergines/eggplant. Then she's talking about a dessert as well? Shades of the "Stone Soup Peddler" story! I was a young bride in 1973, and I will tell you that $2 couldn't feed even a young couple a meal like she dished up in those days!
Chicken giblets.. no thanks… I guess I would use them in a good stock.. that's about it, though.
As a boy, I started watching her for the calming entertainment. Lo and behold, I also learned to cook along the way.
Did she forget to serve the chicken giblets?
Chateau la pump (water)
Now it's a $86 banquet…
18:10 I also happen to be very pro-turnip. Thanks Grandpa F for sharing your love of vegetables with me while the rest of the family looked on in disgust.
I don't think any of the oil embargos or stagflation had even started in 1973. Imagine how bad it was going to get over the next few years.
But using a meal of all veg with a subpar meat that very few people would use back then let alone our entitled crazy folk of 2025!
Julia Child was the greatest chef EVER. Always a joy to watch her.
This aged poorly. 🥺 God bless y'all. 💚
Great episode!! I’ll definitely be making this soon
The "sex" of eggplants is a myth. All fruits come from the female part of a plant, pollinated by the male part. The fruits are neither male nor female.
Lol. $2.
I haven’t seen chicken giblets in grocery stores today but recall as a child my mom bought whole chicken to bake and a little bag with the giblets would be in the cavity of the bird. I only liked the heart. Gizzards were awful. 😊
With all the stress going on I love watching Julia cook ❤so peaceful ✌️
Darling Julia! I was very much charmed when she mentioned the dough basket being a gift from her mother, from California.
I need "I happen to be very pro-turnip" on a t shirt.
In 2025, this would be the "Four Easy Klarna Payments of $32 Banquet"
Lovely and healthy!
I’m not saying I’m going to rush out and buy gizzards…but I’m tempted😊
Julia was embarrassed when she was informed there was no such thing as a "male" and "female" eggplant. Her defense was that she'd been taught by her Italian grocer that there males and females….turns out he was full of it…or having her on. But she admitted her mistake, corrected herself, and moved on.
The REAL idea behind this is to go to the store, use whatever is unpopular or fully in season, and use your imagination in coming up with new ideas. Even when the companion cookbook was published, she admitted that inflation quickly meant that it was no longer two dollars. But the real focus was the idea that budget cooking doesn't need to be bland or boring.
How much would that banquet cost now?
Nothing can stop my intense doomscrolling…
Except Julia Child❤
Eggplant is expensive and a luxorious vegetable…
Julia is my comfort TV. ❤
a long thin male Aubergine🍆 always taste better to me 😎😍!
.. is she drunk ?
That was a lot of vegetables and I don't think most people would just happen to have them on hand, even back then, my mother never did. To have to buy those vegetables even then would cost more than two dollars. Plus the cost of the tomato sauce and cheese for the eggplant pizzas. Also, Julia was assuming that most people would have oil, butter and all those other herbs & seasonings on hand, if not, that would cost more money. I can hear the cash register going at the grocery store: Ching! Ching!
You mean to tell me vegetables have 2 gender ? Male n female ?
Damn…it just occurred to me: will this channel be impacted by funding cuts to public television?:(
I'm so glad I watched this. Next year I retire and now I know how I can eat for two dollars. All I have to do is spend five hours in the kitchen. Then I can eat and go back to bed, and then spend two hours cleaning up the kitchen.
Back when PBS was a refreshing choice from the three other homogeneous network stations.