Full Description
Dining with the Famous and Infamous is an entertaining journey into the gastronomic peccadilloes of celebrities, stars, and notorious public figures. From outrageous artists to masterpiece authors, from rock stars to actors - everybody eats. Based on the findings of the British gastro-detective Fiona Ross, this volume explores the palates, the plates, and the preferences of the famous and infamous. Including recipes and their stories in the lives of those who cooked, ordered or ate them, Ross invites you to taste the culinary secret lives of people like Alfred Hitchcock, Frank Sinatra, and Woody Allen, among many others. Food voyeurism has arrived.
If you've ever wondered whether George Orwell really swigged Victory Gin or whether cherries played their part in the fall of Oscar Wilde, then Dining with the Famous and Infamous will satisfy your appetite. 'Marilyn Monroe becomes a different kind of sex goddess when you discover she tried to eat her way out of Some Like It Hot with aubergine parmigiana: every curve you see on film is a protest (plus early signs of pregnancy!). You can recreate a 'Get Gassed' afternoon cocktail with Andy Warhol and Truman Capote; shake up the chocolate martini Liz Taylor and Rock Hudson invented on the set of Giant; and even relive the Swinging Sixties with the foodie tales, hedonism and hashish cookies of Bob Dylan, the Beatles, and the Rolling Stones.
Who wouldn't want to sit at the table of their favorite film star, writer, artist or warlock and taste a piece of their lives?
Contents
INTRODUCTION
TABLE OF CONTENTS
DINING WITH FAMOUS AND INFAMOUS ARTISTS
Salvador Dalí
Mark Rothko
Gauguin and Van Gogh
Andy Warhol
Auguste Renoir
Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo
Pablo Picasso
DINING WITH FAMOUS AND INFAMOUS MOVIE STARS
Joan Crawford
Michael Caine
Laurel and Hardy
Cary Grant
Marlene Dietrich
Alfred Hitchcock
Liz Taylor
John Wayne
Marilyn Monroe
Bogart and Bacall
Woody Allen
DINING WITH FAMOUS AND INFAMOUS MUSICIANS
The Beatles
Louis Armstrong
Frank Sinatra
Woody Guthrie
Bob Dylan
Bob Marley
Michael Jackson
The Rolling Stones
DINING WITH FAMOUS AND INFAMOUS WRITERS
Evelyn Waugh
C.S. Lewis
Ernest Hemingway
F. Scott Fitzgerald
John Steinbeck
J.D. Salinger
Ian Fleming
W.H. Auden
George Orwell
Agatha Christie
Oscar Wilde
Sylvia Plath
FINALLY, THE NUTS
Casanova
Sybil Leek
Nostradamus
Aleister Crowley
