364061 Thu Jan 25 10:45:39 -0800 2007 9 2 Los Angeles Area 0 2225856 I just got back from a quick trip out to Virginia and had, for the first time, "brains 'n eggs" for breakfast. I think I'm smitten. Anywhere I can find this dish here in LA? Thanks very much. Thu Jan 25 10:45:39 -0800 2007 11583 ipsedixit 1 2226795 I'm afraid you might be Ess Oh Ell, as they say, ipsedixit. This is one Southern treat, like barbecued mutton, that thrives in the narrowest possible geographical swath: wildly popular in one place and utterly unheard of just a few miles away. Your best bet, aside from getting the ingredients and looking up a recipe, might be to find a place that offers both brain tacos and breakfast, and seeing if you could persuade the cook to cobble up some. I stand ready to be proven wrong here; this is something I've never tried myself, but I think I can trust your judgment - so if you do find some, I'm game too! Thu Jan 25 14:01:35 -0800 2007 2225856 11478 Will Owen 2 2226825 Thanks Will. This was so damn good that I couldn't believe my tastebuds. I still have dreams about it. And, oh, they fried the eggs in bacon grease ... freaking outrageously fabulous. Ok, gotta go ... my cardiologist on the phone ... Thu Jan 25 14:08:04 -0800 2007 2226795 11583 ipsedixit 3 2226860 If you can find one of the small Mexican places that do seso tacos they might well be willing to do a breakfast dish for you. It's just that the whole "mad cow" thing scared off places from offering this as a choice on their menus. Whoops, should have read Will's rec. since he covered this territory already. Sorry for the redundant post. Thu Jan 25 14:14:39 -0800 2007 2226825 63713 tony michaels 1 2226877 Joy of Cooking (who else?) has instructions for home preparation of brains--at least in their old edition. My mom (in Chicago--no southern belle) used to occasionally make brains & eggs, so I don't know if they're entirely geographically stuck down south. Thu Jan 25 14:18:54 -0800 2007 2225856 12114 baltodog 2 2227764 I don't think there's a "brains belt" - I think it happens in spots. Chicago I can definitely believe. And when we moved a mere 100 miles south of where we'd all grown up, to Evansville, Indiana, we were astonished to find canned brains in milk gravy as a common store shelf item, and brains'n'eggs on numerous menus. Thu Jan 25 18:08:48 -0800 2007 2226877 11478 Will Owen 1 2226881 Saw Spalding Gray give a lecture (not a monologue) when I was in college. When the Q&A rolled around my friend Julian, deciding things were get a little too serious, asked him "what's the worst thing you've ever eaten?" Gray said that once when he was in Texas (?) he'd bought some calves' brains and mixed them with scrambled (?) eggs, as he was told this was the way to prepare them. Unfortunately nobody told him to COOK the brains first. A word to the wise. Thu Jan 25 14:19:26 -0800 2007 2225856 17195 PlonkMan 1 2226904 you could try canary (a persian place) in westwood. i believe they'll make a version Thu Jan 25 14:24:58 -0800 2007 2225856 15114 epop 1 2226958 My dad used to eat Scrambled Eggs and Brains years ago when I was a kid in Baltimore. He was from NY, so I always thought it was an East Coast thing. Yeech!!! It's one of the many things that turned me vegetarian at 15. Thu Jan 25 14:34:40 -0800 2007 2225856 44504 Sugar Jones 1 2227195 Don't know if they still have it, or if it's any good if they do (I have my doubts), but this dish used to be on the menu at Kate Mantilini (9101 Wilshire Blvd, Beverly Hills, (310) 278-3699). If you try it, let us know if it measures up. Thu Jan 25 15:23:36 -0800 2007 2225856 10134 David Kahn