After letting the masseuse back out of the apartment, Julia returned to the kitchen and grabbed some of the half-bowls so they could serve themselves. "Romanian goulash," she explained. "My mother taught me the recipe. You eat it over potatoes. I amended it a little though, Romanian cuisine is a lot of sour things, so I sweetened it up just a tad." Julia had been taught to cook from a young age, and she was good at it.