Authors' Famous Recipes and Reflections on Food

About the Book

This unique cookbook includes over 200 recipes from well-known authors. In addition to recipes, information about each writer is included with many little known facts about them. Quotations by authors complement each recipe adding spice and humor.

Enjoy unique recipes such as Rex Stout's Bread Fried in Anchovy Butter, Charles Dicken's Hot Punch, Ernest Hemingway's Bloody Mary, Thomas Jefferson's Chicken Fricassee, Alexander Dumas' Potato Salad, Abigail Van Buren's Pecan Pie, Vincent Price's Chicken in Champagne Sauce, Garrison Keillor's Meatloaf, Lillian Hellman's Pot Roast, Sir Walter Scott's Cauliflower and Whiskey, Marjorie K. Rawlings' Cornbread, Laura Ingalls Wilder's Gingerbread, Alice B. Toklas' Brownies and Gazpacho, and many other.

About the Author

Dr. Diane Holloway, former Dallas psychologist, co-authored "Before You Say 'I Quit'", "Dallas and the Jack Ruby Trial", and "American History in Song", wrote "The Mind of Oswald" and "Analyzing Leaders, Presidents and Terrorists". She lived in London and Paris in the late 1950s, visiting the same haunts as writers described herein.