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Originally Posted by michelej1
(Post 855573)
There was a book called Rock and Roll recipes and it had these entries:
Christine ("Mamma Maria's Portugese Steaks", handwritten), Stevie ("Fleetwod Mac Fiesta Dip"), John ("Savory Baked Fish") & Mick ("What My Girlfriend Sara Cooks For Me").
I don't have the book, but the Penguin summary says that Christine's recipe was handwritten.
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Here's a follow up book review:
Palm Beach Post (FL), April 13, 1989
Section: FOOD
TOP MUSICIANS ROCK 'N' ROLL IN KITCHEN
David Plotnikoff, Los Angeles Times News Service
When they're on stage, they may be able to send a crowd of 50,000 fans soaring to the heights of musical ecstasy, but when they're in the kitchen performing for an audience of four, rock stars are, alas, mere mortals.
How comforting to know that even the most privileged of these modern-day arena gladiators must occasionally strip off the black-leather-and-Sp andex armor, don an apron and go one-on-one with the instruments of cuisine.
Robin Le Mesurier and Peggy Sue Honeyman-Scott have documented some great (and less-than-great) culinary performances in their new book Rock 'n' Roll Cuisine (Billboard Books, $12.95), a collection of celebrity recipes.
Le Mesurier, a former Playboy bunny who's married to the lead guitarist of the Rod Stewart Band, and Honeyman-Scott, the widow of Pretenders' guitarist James Honeyman-Scott, spent two years collecting recipes and candid photos from almost 90 of the biggest names in contemporary rock.
The handwritten submissions, many embellished with artistic flourishes, are like pages pilfered out of personal scrapbooks.
The recipes range from the exquisite to the inedible (we'll get to the latter category in a moment). If this book is any indication, seafood -- particularly shellfish-- is currently at the top of the pops menu. There's everything from AC/DC's scallops and
Fleetwood Mac's baked fish to Quiet Riot's Provencal sea bass and Mick Jagger's shrimp curry.
Debbie Harry, who used to lead the band Blondie, submitted an outstanding recipe for nutty shrimp that could keep an entire band of hungry rockers toiling away in the kitchen for more than an hour. Harry's formula calls for coating the shrimp in a tasty mixture of wheat germ, sesame seed and Japanese rice flour.
