The dead celebrity cookbook: recipes and ruminations from the great studio commissary in the sky, DeCaro Frank

If youve ever fantasized about feasting on Frank Sinatras Barbecued Lamb, lunching on Lucille Balls Chinese-y Thing, diving ever-so-neatly into Joan Crawfords Poached Salmon, or wrapping your lips around Rock Hudsons cannoli - and really, who hasnt? - hold on to your oven mitts

In The Dead Celebrity Cookbook: A Resurrection of Recipes by 150 Stars of Stage and Screen, Frank DeCaro--the flamboyantly funny Sirius XM radio personality best known for his six-and-a-half-year stint as the movie critic on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart--collects hundreds of recipes passed on from legendary stars of stage and screen, proving that before there were celebrity chefs, there were celebrities who fancied themselves chefs.

Their all-but-forgotten recipes--rescued from out-of-print cookbooks, musty biographies, vintage magazines, and dusty pamphlets--suggest a style of home entertaining ripe for reexamination if not revival, while reminding intrepid gourmands that, for better or worse, Hollywood doesnt make celebrities (or cooks) like it used to.

Starring
Elizabeth Taylors Chicken with Avocado and Mushrooms
Farrah Fawcetts Sausage and Peppers
Liberaces Sticky Buns
Bette Daviss Red Flannel Hash
Bea Arthurs Good Morning Mushroom Tomato Toast
Dudley Moores Cr me Br l e
Gypsy Rose Lees Portuguese Fish Chowder
John Ritters Famous Fudge
Andy Warhols Ghoulish Goulash
Vincent Prices Pepper Steak
Johnny Cashs Old Iron Pot Family-Style Chili
Vivian Vances Chicken Kiev
Sebastian Cabots Avocado Surprise
Lawrence Welks Vegetable Croquettes
Ann Millers Cheese Souffl
Jerry Orbachs Trifle
Totie Fieldss Fruit Mellow
Irene Ryans Tipsy Basingstoke
Klaus Nomis Key Lime Tart
Richard Deacons Bitter and Booze
Sonny Bonos Spaghetti with Fresh Tomato Sauce

And many others from breakfast to dessert.