Basque Cooking and Lore or Hollywood Du Jour

Basque Cooking and Lore

Author: Darcy Williamson

Darcy Williamson combines her special interests of ethnic cooking and western history in Basque Cooking and Lore. Darcy spent months interviewing Basque people throughout Idaho, Nevada, Utah, and Oregon. This authentic collection of stories, and recipes is the result of her diligent search.

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Hollywood Du Jour: Lost Recipes of Legendary Hollywood Haunts

Author: Betty Goodwin

Hollywood Du Jour: Lost Recipes of Legendary Hollywood Haunts was reviewed by Bon Appetit as a "fascinating book full of recipes, photographs and lore." Author Betty Goodwin profiles Hollywood's eighteen best remembered, but long-shuttered restaurants and showcases their best recipes. Chronicling stories of Hollywood's past through the restaurants and food that nourished stars from the Golden Age to the recent past, Goodwin leads us through seven mouth-watering decades of Hollywood culinary history.

The list of more than thirty recipes includes Brown Derby's famed Cobb Salad, Tick Tock Tea Room's treasured Sticky Orange Rolls, Cyrano's Onion Soup, Cock 'n' Bull's Welshman's Rabbit, its legendary Moscow Mule cocktail and Romanoff's unparalleled Chocolate Souffle.

But it was much more than food that made these restaurants memorable. Designer Jeff Darnall has combined photos and memorabilia with Goodwin's pithy text to evoke a restaurant scene where spotting Peter Lorre at Scandia, Lucy and Desi at the Cocoanut Grove or Orson Welles at Ma Maison were treasured as much as the gravlaks, figs Romanoff or chicken salad we shared with them.