Dining with the Famous and Infamousis an entertaining journey into the gastronomic peccadilloes of celebrities, stars, and notorious public figures. From outrageous artists to masterpiece authors, from rock stars to actors everybody eats. Based on the findings of the British gastro-detective Fiona Ross, this volume explores the palates, the plates, and the preferences of the famous and infamous. Including recipes and their stories in the lives of those who cooked, ordered or ate them, Ross invites you to taste the culinary secret lives of people like Alfred Hitchcock, Frank Sinatra, and Woody Allen, among many others. Food voyeurism has arrived.If youve ever wondered whether George Orwell really swigged Victory Gin or whether cherries played their part in the fall of Oscar Wilde, thenDining with the Famous and Infamous will satisfy your appetite. 'Marilyn Monroe becomes a different kind of sex goddess when you discover she tried to eat her way out ofSome Like It Hot with aubergine parmigiana: every curve you see on film is a protest (plus early signs of pregnancy!). You can recreate a Get Gassed afternoon cocktail with Andy Warhol and Truman Capote; shake up the chocolate martini Liz Taylor and Rock Hudson invented on the set ofGiant; and even relive the Swinging Sixties with the foodie tales, hedonism and hashish cookies of Bob Dylan, the Beatles, and the Rolling Stones.Who wouldnt want to sit at the table of their favorite film star, writer, artist or warlock and taste a piece of their lives?

Fiona Ross, like most of us, leads a double existence: In her normal life as a writer of fiction and freelance food writer in a gloomy, rainy corner of the United Kingdom called Bishops Stortford, she keeps company with two meat-eating chickens and her dog, Parsnip. Meanwhile, her glamorous double works as a gastro-detective whose headquarters is the famous Bodleian Library in Oxford; there she spends her time on the trail of gastronomes and investigating such sticky issues as how much jam Marx liked on his tarts.

INTRODUCTIONTABLE OF CONTENTSDINING WITH FAMOUS AND INFAMOUS ARTISTSSalvador DalíMark RothkoGauguin and Van GoghAndy WarholAuguste RenoirDiego Rivera and Frida KahloPablo PicassoDINING WITH FAMOUS AND INFAMOUS MOVIE STARSJoan CrawfordMichael CaineLaurel and HardyCary GrantMarlene DietrichAlfred HitchcockLiz TaylorJohn WayneMarilyn MonroeBogart and BacallWoody AllenDINING WITH FAMOUS AND INFAMOUS MUSICIANSThe BeatlesLouis ArmstrongFrank SinatraWoody GuthrieBob DylanBob MarleyMichael JacksonThe Rolling StonesDINING WITH FAMOUS AND INFAMOUS WRITERSEvelyn WaughC.S. LewisErnest HemingwayF. Scott FitzgeraldJohn SteinbeckJ.D. SalingerIan FlemingW.H. AudenGeorge OrwellAgatha ChristieOscar WildeSylvia PlathFINALLY, THE NUTSCasanovaSybil LeekNostradamusAleister Crowley