Marlene Dietrich’s Coffee Mousse 2 cups strong black coffee 1/2 pound (36) marshmallows 1/2 cup heavy cream 1/2 cup finely chopped walnuts Cook coffee and marshmallows together, stirring occasionally until marshmallows are melted.…
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Eating With the Stars: Janet Leigh’s Fruit Salad with Daiquiri Dressing
The late, great Janet Leigh, best known for her starring roles in Touch of Evil, The Manchurian Candidate, The Fog (with daughter Jamie Lee Curtis) and, of course, Psycho, proved that she was equally…
Eating With the Stars Gets Meta With Recipes for Sally Field’s Peanut Butter-Honey Granola and Mary Todd Lincoln’s Vanilla Almond Cake
Recently I encountered a dilemma when I unearthed a recipe for Mary Todd Lincoln’s Vanilla Almond Cake. Though I loved the idea of propagating it and, even saying, “Mary Todd Lincoln’s Vanilla Almond Cake”…
A Letter of Encouragement From OBE Glenda Jackson, Plus a Recipe for Her Nutty Date Loaf in Eating With the Stars
Though she essentially retired from acting in the early 1990s to focus on her second career as a politician, Glenda Jackson is fondly remembered today as a leading lady of great skill and charm,…
Eating With the Stars: Tony Bennett’s Mother’s Lasagna
Tony Bennett is certainly one of the true all-time great vocalists and his late-career resurgance engineered by son/manager Danny Bennett has been nothing if not astonishing (especially considering that Tony’s brand of pop music…
Hermione Gingold Singing “I’d Be Surprisingly Good For You” from Evita, Plus: Eating With the Stars Features Her Recipe for Steak and Kidney Pudding, Which Would be Surprisingly Not Good For You
For those of you under the age of say 70 or 80, today’s Eating With the Stars subject may be a bit obscure, but I assure you that spending some time with the great Hermione…
Sending Warm Wishes to Valerie Harper, and a Recipe for Her Summer Squash in Eating With the Stars
Here’s the kind of cross marketing no one wants: your autobiography is published concurrent with the announcement of terminal illness and a projection of three months to live! As horrible as it sounds, that…
Eating With the Stars: Barbara Walters’ Mother’s Stuffed Cabbage Rolls
God bless Barbara Walters! For a great deal of the population, the 83-year-old news veteran has simply always been there, like our favorite sad song or a beloved shrub. Having announced her imminent retirement…
Eating With the Stars: Marie Osmond’s Orange Chicken
This shocking recipe, which calls for both margarine and frozen orange juice from concentrate, was thoughtfully sent to me by my friend and Stargayzing reader Jana Marimpietri. It seems that Jana’s grandmother Bessie Marimpietri…
Eating With The Stars: Liberace’s Meatball Soup
With HBO’s Liberace biopic Beyond the Candelabra imminently due, there is certain to be a resurgance in all things “Lee.” Though it remains to be seen if Steven Soderbergh’s film will feature Michael Douglas in…
Eating With the Stars: Ida Lupino’s Plum Cake
“My agent had told me that he was going to make me the Janet Gaynor of England – I was going to play all the sweet roles. Whereupon, at the tender age of thirteen, I…
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