HOLLYWOOD DU JOUR
Lost Recipes of Legendary Hollywood Haunts

by Betty Goodwin

HOLLYWOOD DU JOUR: Lost Recipes of Legendary Hollywood Haunts was reviewed by Bon Appetit as a "fascinating book full of recipes, photographs and lore." Author Betty Goodwin profiles Hollywood's eighteen best remembered, but long-shuttered restaurants and showcases their best recipes. Chronicling stories of Hollywood's past through the restaurants and food that nourished stars from the Golden Age to the recent past, Goodwin leads us through seven mouth-watering decades of Hollywood culinary history.

The list of more than thirty recipes includes Brown Derby's famed Cobb Salad, Tick Tock Tea Room's treasured Sticky Orange Rolls, Cyrano's Onion Soup, Cock 'n' Bull's Welshman's Rabbit, its legendary Moscow Mule cocktail and Romanoff's unparalleled Chocolate Souffle.

But it was much more than food that made these restaurants memorable. Designer Jeff Darnall has combined photos and memorabilia with Goodwin's pithy text to evoke a restaurant scene where spotting Peter Lorre at Scandia, Lucy and Desi at the Cocoanut Grove or Orson Welles at Ma Maison were treasured as much as the gravlaks, figs Romanoff or chicken salad we shared with them.

Back to press in 1998 for a fifth time, no wonder HOLLYWOOD DU JOUR was named one of the country's nine hot new cookbooks in the Wall Street Journal. Diversions magazine, an upscale travel-oriented monthly, featured HOLLYWOOD DU JOUR as one of America's best souvenirs. Featured everywhere from Vanity Fair to Best Recipes, Betty Goodwin's quirky cookbook/nostalgia gift has earned editorial kudos around the country: