The Dead Celebrity Cookbook – Bringing Oscar Favorites To Your Very Own Party

“Flip on a movie channel and get cooking! Required reading.” – Billy Heller, New York Post.

“We hear Rock Hudson’s Cannoli is delicious!” – Entertainment Weekly.

“In
The Dead Celebrity Cookbook, author Frank DeCaro has collected and
presented an array of recipes by beloved (and dead) stars….” –
people.com

“Celebrities like Elizabeth Taylor and Andy Warhol
may be gone, but their favorite dishes will never be forgotten. Try one
tonight!” – oprah.com

“While Halloween might come only once a year, there’s never a bad time for The Dead Celebrity Cookbook.” – bonappetit.com

“A veritable who’s who of Hollywood’s Golden Age.” – Sara Bonisteel, epicurious.com.

“The
book marries DeCaro’s twin obsessions with movie/celebrity/pop culture
and food. The recipes reflect a happier time when carbs, mayo and butter
were still considered friendlies…”
– Elena Ferretti, foxnews.com.

 “Chow down on your favorite dead stars’ recipes. Come on, it won’t kill you!” – Michael Musto, The Village Voice

Inspired
by a “Dead Celebrity Party” during his college years, DeCaro thought
the one thing missing from the event was the food of the dead. Since
then, he’s been collecting recipes of the stars and lucky for us, he’s
put them together in, THE DEAD CELEBRITY COOKBOOK: A Resurrection of
Recipes from More Than 145 Stars of Stage and Screen (HCI Books).

DeCaro,
who is best known for his nearly 7-year stint as the movie critic on
The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, and now heard weekdays on his own
call-in radio show, gives us a giggle while feeding us treats from
Tinsel Town like: Liberace’s Sticky Buns, Mae West’s Fruit Compote, John
Ritter’s Favorite Fudge and Bea Arthur’s Vegetarian Breakfast.

THE
DEAD CELEBRITY COOKBOOK is here to remind you that before there were
celebrity chefs, there were celebrities who fancied themselves as chefs.
They were whipping up culinary delights, and sometimes sharing them
with us on shows like Merv Griffin, Mike Douglas or even Johnny Carson.
DeCaro gives us some entertaining and informative commentary before each
section of recipes in chapters that include: “Talk Show Chow,” “An
All-Night Oscar Buff,” and “I Lunch Lucy,” a whole section dedicated to
the red-haired TV goddess.

Says DeCaro, “I miss those days when
celebrities still had mystery about them, and a glimpse inside their
radar ranges seemed, for any fan, like a window into the world of
glamour and excitement, which is why I put together this book.” This
book delivers recipes that the stars are dying for you to make.

Following
on the success of The Dead Celebrity Cookbook, Frank recently released
Christmas In Tinseltown: Celebrity Recipes and Hollywood Memories from
Six Feet Under the Mistletoe. Packed with holiday favorites from some of
the greatest stars of all time and written in his infamous style of
humor and sarcasm, both books give readers a unique and fun opportunity
to make new traditions in the kitchen.

For more information, please go to: www.deadcelebritycookbook.com.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Best
known for his years as the flamboyant movie critic on The Daily Show
with Jon Stewart, Frank DeCaro is heard each weekday morning on his live
national call-in program The Frank DeCaro Show on Sirius XM Satellite
Radio. A writer and performer, DeCaro pens the “Icons” column for CBS
Watch magazine. The author of the pioneering memoir A Boy Named Phyllis,
DeCaro previously wrote the “Style Over Substance” column for The New
York Times. Visit the author at frankdecaro.com and on Facebook, and
follow him at twitter.com/frankdecaroshow.

Available at fine bookstores, online outlets or directly from the publisher, contact:  (800) 441-5569 or www.hcibooks.com.
THE DEAD CELEBRITY COOKBOOK: A Resurrection of Recipes from More Than 145 Stars of Stage and Screen
Frank Decaro
HCI Books
ISBN: 978-9-7573-1596-1– $19.95  

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