Joined: Fri Aug 28, 2009 10:48 am Posts: 818 Location: Near Ithaca, NY
So I was perusing an antique/junque shop, and found "Candy Hits by ZaSu Pitts." For you young'ins, she was a silent film star and my grandmother's favorite comedienne. She transitioned into "talkies" and television, and died in 1963. I named my hilarious Golden Retriever after her.
Anyway, I tried to research it, but I suspect it was one of the first celebrity cookbooks. The recipes are pretty good, too. She evidently had a "famous round kitchen."
Does anyone else collect old cookbooks? Or have celebrity cookbooks?
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Joined: Mon Dec 22, 2008 11:01 am Posts: 1287 Location: Denver
I wouldn't say that I collect them, but if I happen to see any I like while I am in an antique store, I will buy it...I only have a few in my "collection". I do have a few celebrity compilations from charitable events.
Joined: Fri Dec 19, 2008 9:52 am Posts: 1140 Location: Kansas City
I have a few: The George Bernard Shaw Vegetarian Cokbook Some Favorite Southern Recipes of the Duchess of Windsor
I know I have others but can't think of them off the top of my head. I've used a few recipes out of the Shaw book but nothing appeals to me from the Duchess' collection. In fact, they seem quite boring.
Quote from the Shaw book: "My hearse will be followed not by mourning coaches but by heards of oxen, sheep, swine, flocks of poultry and a small traveling aquarium of live fish, all wearing white scarves in honor of the man who perished rather than eat his fellow creatures."
Fitzie
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Joined: Tue Jan 06, 2009 3:54 pm Posts: 1165 Location: New York
In our apt I've got 1948 BHG and 1964 JC. I know I have some classic Julia, Pierre Franey and a few others upstate but can't for the life of me remember them right now. Must be this fabulous french wine I'm taste testing Nancy
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