Lunch with who?

[eJulia]

If you could have lunch with any two "foodie" people, living or dead, who would they be?

My first choice, hands down, would be my namesake, Julia Child. (Yes, my name really is Julia.)

As I contemplate a suitable lunchtime companion.... Jacques? Too easy. Jeffrey Steingartin? Too much of an a**hole for a pleasant lunch with Julia. Bobby Flay? Too "in" to himself for his own good. Tyler Florence? Same. Ina Gartin? A bit too stuffy. Sandra Lee might be funny, but a bit of an insult to Julia.

I'd pick bleudauvergne from our own eGullet. I have loved all her posts, and I think she'd appreciate lunch wirh Julia!

Who would you pick?

[MT-Tarragon]

Who would you pick?

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I would like to pick MFK Fisher and Julia Child, but I worry that I wouldn't really be a part of the lunch conversation. I'd love to sit there and listen, though. I think maybe the two of them and a couple of other friends would make for a great meal.

As an alternate, I think that Mario Batali and Alton Brown would make an interesting combination.

[srhcb]

There are plenty of food world people I'd love to meet, or get to know by visiting with on a regular basis, but in order to just have lunch I'd want to feel comfortable rather then star struck.

I'll take Sara Moulton and Iron Chef Sakai.

SB (and, I guess, an interpreter, unless Sara speaks Japanese)

[srhcb]

I'll take Sara Moulton and Iron Chef Sakai.  

SB (and, I guess, an interpreter, unless Sara speaks Japanese)

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Or, if Sara doesn't speak Japanese, (or Sakai English), and I can't add a third person, I'll take Bourdain.

SB (we have a few things in common)

[tug]

Bourdain and Batali

I would've picked the obvious Julia but I don't think my palate would do her justice.

[ivan]

Marcus Gavius Apicius and Keith Floyd.

[Jason Perlow]

All politics aside, Kim Jong Il and Winston Churchill. Just for the extremes of conversation and foodie bent, although arguably they have similar taste, so perhaps Elvis Presley instead of the Glorious Leader. But I'd probably go back in time to eat with The King, like at the Fontainebleu Hotel Miami Beach in 1965 or so, as opposed to picking a modern setting. Or maybe do a personalized binge eating tour of his favorite spots in Memphis.

[Lori in PA]

I could really enjoy lunch with Julia Child or someone else like her, but right now I'd prefer to lunch with Lucy aka Bleu... and someone like Molly Stevens, because the kind of thing they do very well is what I'm exploring more of at the moment -- Lucy's writing of late has inspired the part of me that always longs to live a richer, more deliberate everyday life and the Le Creuset oval French oven I got for Christmas combined with the winter season has me braising, braising, braising. (Unfortunately, I didn't receive Molly's cookbook during the holidays. I've drooled over it in a bookstore, but the budget just won't bear it for now, so I was extra-delighted to see an article with recipes by Molly in the Feb. Bon Appetit. I'm planning to try the bean soup with sausage in a day or two.)

Edited January 20, 2006 by Lori in PA (log)

[lesfen]

Dinner with David Rosengarten... drinks and dessert with Bourdain.

[ivan]

Who is this Bourdain fellow everyone keeps mentioning?

[jsolomon]

For currently alive educated chefs, (AB)^2, Alton Brown and Anthony Bourdain.

For educational aspects, Margaret Visser and Harold McGee

For sheer wackiness, George Hormel (credited with inventing Spam®) and John Belushi (as The Samurai Chef)

But, my piece de resistance is the Turning Points of American Cookery couple, Thomas Jefferson (inventor of macaroni and cheese) and Julia Child (inventor of Julia Child)

Who is this Bourdain fellow everyone keeps mentioning?

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Anthony Bourdain, author of Kitchen Confidential. Ambrose Bierce of the cooking world.

Edited January 20, 2006 by jsolomon (log)

[ivan]

Nonsense. Macaroni and Cheese was invented by Pavel Noodlov, the Russian epicurian and part-time inventor.

[hjshorter]

I'd pick Mario Batali and Michael Stipe, but only if they hold hands through the meal.

[ivan]

How would they cut their meat?

[ivan]

Ha! Ambrose Bierce! Say, I wonder what ever happened to that guy...

[eJulia]

OK... I want Tony B, too, but only if I can have him unmarried and alone with me!

Edited January 20, 2006 by eJulia (log)

[hjshorter]

How would they cut their meat?

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Nice to see you, Ivan. I'm sure they would manage - or just order pasta.

[McDuff]

Raymond Sokolove and Robert Courtine

[raxelita]

Orson Welles

[ivan]

Orson Welles

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But that's just one...

Oh. I get it.

[GordonCooks]

Roxanne Klein and Colonel Sanders

[ScorchedPalate]

MFK Fisher (who's always my answer when asked this question in a non-culinary setting) and Tony Bourdain.

~A

[djbeers]

Jacque Pepin and Tyler Florence for me.

[petite tête de chou]

Katharine Hepburn and King Henry the VIII. I'm very curious about what he ate.

[Daniel]

I wish I could eat this huge meal with that Rossini guy.. I dont know too much about him, but whenever his name is on a menu, the dish is pretty well loaded.. He would of course pick the meal of his favorite things.. And I will agree with Petite that a meal with Henry the VIII would be spectacular as well.. Actually a combo meal chosen by both men would go down in the books..And lunch would have to last at least 10 hours.

Edited January 20, 2006 by Daniel (log)