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Joy of Liberace: Retro Recipes from America’s Kitschiest Kitchen

Rhinestones and Recipes Authors: Michael Feder and Karan Feder Not too long ago, I had a Liberace-themed costume party, as you do, and naturally I wanted the refreshments to be as authentically Liberacean as possible. Liberace did publish his own cookbook in 1970, Liberace Cooks!, but it’s out of print and hard to find these days. Luckily, Michael and Karan Feder have revived some of its retro-est recipes in a new cookbook, Joy of Liberace: Retro Recipes from America’s Kitschiest Kitchen. At first glance, this seems to be mostly a novelty coffee-table book. From the garish, eye-popping artwork to the [...]

Feast of Ice and Fire, A

Dinner Is Coming Authors: Chelsea Monroe-Cassel, Sariann Lehrer Cookbooks are one of my favorite things to check out from the library. Haven’t we all been burned by forking out $40 on some fancy gourmet tome, only to watch it gathering dust on the shelf? (Well, I have.) I much prefer to borrow a cookbook, browse through it for the handful of recipes I might actually use, and then guiltlessly return it when I’m done. Especially when the cookbook in question is a collection of pseudo-medieval cookery inspired by HBO’s hit fantasy show Game of Thrones. But don’t dismiss this as [...]