Famous Food

Food books over the past few years have typically fallen into two categories: locavore and sustainable food manifestos, or excursions around the world to seek out ultra-exotic cuisine. Recently, there has been a new trend looking at food that famous people have eaten throughout history. Andrew Caldwell, known as The History Chef TM, has taken a particular interest in this topic by writing Their Last Suppers: Legends of History and Their Final Meals. Aside from the final requests of Death Row criminals, a last meal is not something that can usually be planned. But it can be historically studied and this book covers 2,000 years of culinary history, based on the final meals of twenty-one historical figures, from Cleopatra to Adolf Hitler to Elvis Presley, the book contains brief and enlightening biographies followed by recipes that are both historical in their own right and useful for trying at home to relive these legendary meals. Read more