From "What Actors Eat, When They Eat!" Kenneth Harlan, Rex Lease, 1939. "Light enough for a summer diet"! Myrna's method and ingredients...

"No dish has enjoyed greater popularity than Chicken a la King!" From the Better Homes and Gardens Casserole Cook Book, 1961, we have...

All things meat, from the nice folks at Cutco. Carin' for your meat. A whole lotta braisin' goin' on. Crown roast? Don't mind if I do. 👑...

From Favorite Recipes of Home Economic Teachers: Foreign Foods Edition, 1967, The SPAIN Chapter. This 1967 compilation is an absorbing...

A beautiful-looking Spanish-inspired recipe whose taste just can't be beat. All the steps are a lot of fun and it presents so...

If a Louisiana chicken andouille gumbo and Chinese-American chop suey had a baby. This is a subgum-style, vegetable-rich chop suey, which...

A sandwich smörgåsbord? Don't mind if I do! From The Illustrated Good Housekeeping Encyclopedic Cookbook. Book 1, 1965. Smörgåsbord...

I don't make this stuff up. From A Picture Treasury of Good Cooking, 1953. Add a little frutti to your tutti with this tasty vintage...

Presenting . . . the world premiere of my chick-o-licious Sweet 'n Sour Creole Chicken 'n Rice, also known as Elizabeth Ashley's Creole...

This book is a vintage treasure from my family's Texas cookbook collection. I herewith bring you some of the delicious chicken recipes...

Presenting . . . my Paradise Almond Chicken. A highlight of the Chinese New Year chapter of The Infinite Feast cookbook, it’s one of my...

This is a great-looking, well-researched, recipe-packed little cookbook from 1955. Fish and poultry, shellfish and game. It is big into...

"For those who can't go abroad this year." Or for those who have more sense than to try! With this crazy airline situation in the summer...

This one is a treasure of my collection. Not even a proper cookbook-let, I've always adored this beautifully designed advertising recipe...

Queen Elizabeth II is an historical touchpoint for the leadership of the United States, having hosted or met with every U. S. President...

This is my version of the original recipe for the cold chicken dish served at Queen Elizabeth’s 1953 coronation luncheon. My recipe follows the original ingredients closely, however I switch the amounts up a bit to, in my estimate, increase the appeal. I use only about a quarter of the mayo in the original, and I increase the onion and the tomato to give the curry flavoring more passion. This results in a rosy-colored dish instead of pale. I created the rice salad that accomp

The very nice folks at WJLA's Good Morning Washington program asked me to come up with some time-saving recipe ideas for an April 2022 cooking segment (air date 4/26/22). I created and tested the following three recipes that use time-saving rotisserie chicken, and they are all three VERY tasty if I do say so myself! First up: my "Spring Chicken, Fruit, & Herb Salad," followed by my "BBQ Chicken Pizza with Easy Yogurt Crust," and last but not least, my "Classic Chicken à la Ki

David Schwimmer didn't really write this recipe but we'll pretend he did. Here, from the nice folks at Hello! magazine, is their take on...

Les grandes recettes culinaires des provinces de France , 1961, Air France 🇫🇷 🍾 🇫🇷 🍾 🇫🇷 The introduction to this beautiful little cookbooklet, full of French provincial recipes by venerable Air France chefs, advises us the dishes are "far from easy to execute with dash." But we can TRY, can't we?! Food this nice on planes is definitely a vestige of a bygone era. Crown roast of lamb! The potatoes sound wonderful. The king of entrées. Chateaubriand continued, and sweetb

This great little cookbooklet is a fantastic source of Mexican recipe ideas, even though you can't get Ashley's products anymore....