What a great collection of dining experiences and with such notable dining companions! A fun romp through several gastronomique experiences with the likes of Alfred Hitchcock, Picasso, Salvadore Dali, Laurel and Hardy, Liz Taylor along with a few of her husbands, Marilyn Monroe, Paul Gauguin & Vincent Van Gogh, Frida Kahlo & Diego Rivera, Humphrey Bogart & Lauren Bacall, Woody Allen, The Beatles, Bob Marley, The Rolling Stones, C.S. Lewis, Aleister Crowley, Michael Jackson, Louis Armstrong, Bob Dylan, Woody Guthrie, Sylvia Plath, Oscar Wilde, the list goes on. So fun and so well written that you can almost smell the dishes cooking from the avid descriptions. Recipes accompany each feast described so the reader can really feel a part of the meal. One would do well to be mindful of the eccentricities of Salvadore Dali – a dining experience I would definetly pass on – Salvadore didn’t just look bizarre – yikes! And Aleister Crowley liked to startle guests with his “personal” accoutrements served in the victuals he prepared. Trust me that was a don’t ask don’t eat there affair, too. It is said of Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera that when they kissed lights in the room or in the street would burn brighter, of course Frida’s father told Diego she was a devil, I’m just saying... From the brandy Frida hid within her skirts in a perfume bottle to the Duck with Black Mole and Huitlacoche Fry, the chilies weren’t the hottest things at their table. The Beatles were wined and dined by rich and royals alike but when it came down to it the Liverpudlian lads loved their bacon butties, fish and chips and baked beans on toast (all recipes included here). Who knew Nostradamus was quite the marzipan maker? The things you learn here will surprise you. Lots of stories told and facts revealed that I had never heard before – (Mick Jagger and Marianne Faithful – I will never look at a Mars bar the same way again) and several jaw dropping, rapid eye blinking reveals, too. GOOD BOOK. Good from the first page to the last. I understand this is one book in a series titled, Dining with Destiny which I must peruse all the titles. Excellent read. Warning, this book will make you hungry at times and you will be forced to go make yourself a knockoff of what the celebrities are dining on. (But then some chapters…not so much.)
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