Deborah Makarios<p>My ancestral cookbook's section on Food for the Sick includes the suggestion of fricasseed brains in white sauce. (Recipe not included, though there are recipes for Brains Stewed, Brain Pie, and Brain Cakes.)</p><p>Personally, I think fricasseed brains - with or without white sauce - are most useful in the sickroom as a diagnostic tool.</p><p>If the invalid, on being presented with the dish, suddenly recovers: you've got a hypochondriac on your hands - or did until very recently.</p><p>If they turn their face to the wall with a hollow groan: you've got yourself a genuine sufferer. </p><p>And if the patient wolfs down the dish: well, that there is a zombie. Who else would be keen on brains?</p><p>Just don't ask about the curry recipe. That's a real horror story.<br><a href="https://theres.life/tags/zombie" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>zombie</span></a> <a href="https://theres.life/tags/brains" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>brains</span></a> <a href="https://theres.life/tags/cookbook" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>cookbook</span></a> <a href="https://theres.life/tags/illness" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>illness</span></a></p>