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    The Dead Celebrity Cookbook: A Resurrection of Recipes by More Than 145 Stars of Stage and Screen
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    The Dead Celebrity Cookbook: A Resurrection of Recipes by More Than 145 Stars of Stage and Screen

    By Frank DeCaro

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    If you've ever fantasized about feasting on Frank Sinatra's Barbecued Lamb, lunching on Lucille Ball's "Chinese-y Thing," diving ever-so-neatly into Joan Crawford's Poached Salmon, or wrapping your lips around Rock Hudson's cannoli – and really, who hasn't? – hold on to your oven mitts! 
        
    In The Dead Celebrity Cookbook: A Resurrection of Recipes by 150 Stars of Stage and Screen, Frank DeCaro—the flamboyantly funny Sirius XM radio personality best known for his six-and-a-half-year stint as the movie critic on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart—collects hundreds of recipes passed on from legendary stars of stage and screen, proving that before there were celebrity chefs, there were celebrities who fancied themselves chefs.
       
    Their all-but-forgotten recipes—rescued from out-of-print cookbooks, musty biographies, vintage magazines, and dusty pamphlets—suggest a style of home entertaining ripe for reexamination if not revival, while reminding intrepid gourmands that, for better or worse, Hollywood doesn't make celebrities (or cooks) like it used to.

    Starring
    Farrah Fawcett's Sausage and Peppers
    Liberace's Sticky Buns
    Bette Davis's Red Flannel Hash
    Bea Arthur's Good Morning Mushroom Tomato Toast
    Dudley Moore's Crème Brûlée
    Gypsy Rose Lee's Portuguese Fish Chowder
    John Ritter's Famous Fudge
    Andy Warhol's Ghoulish Goulash
    Vincent Price's Pepper Steak
    Johnny Cash's Old Iron Pot Family-Style Chili
    Vivian Vance's Chicken Kiev
    Sebastian Cabot's Avocado Surprise 
    Lawrence Welk's Vegetable Croquettes
    Ann Miller's Cheese Soufflé
    Jerry Orbach's Trifle
    Totie Fields's Fruit Mellow
    Irene Ryan's Tipsy Basingstoke
    Klaus Nomi's Key Lime Tart
    Richard Deacon's Bitter and Booze

    And many other meals from breakfast to dessert.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHealth Communications Inc EB
    Release dateOct 3, 2011
    ISBN9780757391644
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    The Dead Celebrity Cookbook: A Resurrection of Recipes by More Than 145 Stars of Stage and Screen

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    • 5/5
      If you are a foodie and film fan, then you will think you have died and gone to heaven when you read "The Dead Celebrity Cookbook"! Recipes and reflections are blended together with rollicking, rowdy, revelry, and a smashing time will be had by all! Author Frank DeCaro enlightens and entertains with facts and food finds from legendary stars of stage and screen, and the results are delicious. I love to sit down with a cup of coffee and read a cookbook. Since this book is filled with as many stories as it has recipes, it is one of the most readable and enjoyable cookbooks that I own. The chapters are categorized by the contributor's claim to fame, such as: "Musical Munchies"; "Sitcom Moms Really Cook"; "Dance This Mess Around"; and "A Feast of Funny Fellows". The skill level of the chefs ranges from kitchen-capable to titan of take-out, and the recipes run the realm between truly taste tempting to seriously strange and somewhat scary. Dom Deluise's "Doodlewoppers"--who knew?!? Just kidding--those "Doodlewoppers" sound like darn good cookies!!! "The Dead Celebrity Cookbook" is a decadent delight from cover to cover. The amazing range of recipes is as equally appealing as the royal roster of legendary luminaries from the world of entertainment. A "must have" for the kitchen library of true devotees of the silver screen and the silver palate. Review Copy Gratis HCI Books
    • 5/5
      Decaro is best known for his appearances on "The Daily Show with Jon Stewart", and here he's gathered recipes, and a bit of gossip, from celebrities who have passed. Whether they put out a cookbook themselves, added a home recipe to a charity cookbook or made their recipe themselves for a cooking segment on a daytime talk show, these are homey dishes that often reflect the particular personality. Most sound pretty good, but a few are included with a "it's your funeral" caveat, such as "Gloria Swanson's Potassium Broth", which is a dreadful pot of cooked string beans, celery, zucchini and Swiss chard, no seasoning. Recipes that sound very good include Katherine Hepburn's brownies, George Reeves' Super Cookies and Eartha Kitt's chicken wings. And since I have the ingredients on hand, I might be making "Robert Reed's Beef & Biscuit Casserole" tonight.This is a pretty fun cookbook.