The Celebrity Cookbook

$5.99

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Back cover lists contributors including: Mrs. Lyndon Johnson, Mrs. Hubert Humphrey, Jacqueline Kennedy, Edie Adams, Lauren Bacall, Mrs. Jim Backus, Lucille Ball, Edgar Bergen, Mrs. Shelley Berman, Shirley Booth, Ralph Bunche, Taylor Caldwell, Mrs. Nat Cole, Bill Cosby, Bob Cummings, Bette Davis, Phyllis Diller (continued on back). Inside introduction by Dinah Shore titled "How I brought all this to you without spilling a drop" states: "Celebrities have a lesser known side to their lives, usually reserved for intimate friends and family. Sometimes it's revealed in what they like to cook. I really believe that many of them—in their private lives—see themselves as Walter Mittys in reverse...not as Sophia Lorens, or Jeanne d'Arcs or Ernest Hemingways, but as an ingenious domestic variety of Brillat Savarin in their own kitchens, able to concoct a superlative after-theater casserole or a spectacular soufflé on a moment's notice. Many of my friends are well-known and unusually talented (in the kitchen, too) and I have thoroughly enjoyed eating the very special dishes they have cooked for me. In an effort to share my pride in my friends and their pleasure in cooking, I asked some of them to send me their favorite..." Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 66-27567. Printed in the United States of America.