When Rich Men Cook
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This is among the stranger tomes in my collection, but given the current political climate, it just caught my eye.
It was published in 1968, and the author had a notion that captains of industry made excellent cooks. He collected their recipes and arranged them into rather fascinating meals.
I found the Mexican recipes especially interesting. In the introduction he notes that the rich were flying off to Mexico instead of Monte Carlo, and returning with recipes like these....
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It's a fascinating tome, with the strangest mix of recipes I've ever encountered. What other book, I wonder, would offer three different recipes for shad roe? (Not one of them, incidentally, involves bacon or a simple saute.) NExt spring, when the shad are running again, I'll post all three of them.
In the meantime, here's a little bit of nostalgia. This was, I think, my mother's favorite party dessert.
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