Cookaholics Bulletin Board

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?

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.

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

Fitzie, now that's funny!