CHASEN'S
Where Hollywood Dined -- Recipes and Memories

by Betty Goodwin

-- back in print by popular demand --

Angel City Press is pleased to present CHASEN'S: Where Hollywood Dined -- Recipes And Memories, the only authorized Chasen's cookbook, including every recipe that made Chasen's the stars' favorite eatery during seven decades of Hollywood history.

Nostalgia and cookbook collectors get ready: We may never be able to toast Frank Sinatra with a Flame of Love martini, join Jimmy and Gloria Stewart over calf's liver and onions, or share a steaming bowl of Boiled Beef Belmont with the President and Mrs. Reagan on Tuesday nights. But we can come close. CHASEN'S has every great recipe that kept the stars coming back for more, plus its fascinating text stirs delivers the dish on the restaurant and its famous fans.

Goodwin traces this legendary restaurant from its beginning on Dec. 13, 1936 as a rib and chili hangout, through the Golden Years, when Hollywood stars turned Chasen's into a glamour scene, to the Reagan era, when Chasen's was unofficial home-away-from-home for the President and his supporters.

Recipes include the world famous Chasen's Chili that Elizabeth Taylor had air-freighted to the Cleopatra set in Italy, the Chicken Pot Pie served to Queen Elizabeth, the Shirley Temple cocktail that Chasen's bartender invented for the curly-topped star, and a host of other favorites including Deviled Beef Bones, Banana Shortcake, Sole Hitchcock, Coupe Snowball, and the dish President Reagan always ordered, Boiled Beef Belmont.

Designed by noted graphic artist Sheryl Winter, CHASEN'S is a must for Hollywood nostalgia lovers, foodies and cookbook collectors alike. People fascinated by food, film and good gossip will smack their lips.

Highlights:

• The only authorized Chasen's cookbook
• 50 authentic recipes
• Chili -- the world-famous Chasen's way
• 45 photographs of celebrated patrons
• The legend of this renowned Hollywood restaurant
• From the author of HOLLYWOOD DU JOUR