Brains and Eggs

No, I was not reared eating brains and eggs in North Carolina, but my mother was, as well as a friend who grew up outside Pine Bluff, Arkansas. My earliest memory of the dish is of the strong hog’s brains my grandmother Maw Maw used to scramble with eggs, and it was only later, when another relative made the dish with milder, more delicate calves’ brains, that I became hooked. At one time, brains were considered a great delicacy in the South (as in France), and since I’ve noticed recently m