Joy of Liberace: Retro Recipes from America's Kitschiest Kitchen

Joy of Liberace: Retro Recipes from America's Kitschiest Kitchen by Michael Feder. Hardcover edition. ISBN: 9781883318710.

Joy of Liberace, Retro Recipes from Americas Kitschiest Kitchen! is the first ever book officially sanctioned by the Liberace Foundation, complete with many never-before-seen archival photographs, all coupled with the brand new concept of Bling Cooking™ executed by the world famous Riviera Hotel and Casino. This retro cookbook is Sooo Liberace! It is THE step-by-step guide to Bling Cooking™, food with all the panache of the glitziest pianist who ever tickled the ivories. Joy of Liberace is filled with the recipes that made America swoon in the ’50s: Gilding-the-Lily Lasagna, Chicken à La King of Bling!, Flamboyant Flambé of Sirloin, Brawny Austrian Torte, “Spaghetti, Butter and Cheese-Oh My!,” “Fruit, Fruitier, Fruitiest Salad,” “Salamiami Bouquet,” “Russian Salad (Tchaikovsky Loved This Salad!),” “Weenie Broil,” and 75+ more recipes! These are classics that rocked Las Vegas and Palm Springs and are the culinary equivalent to the flamboyant music that kept viewers tuned in and turned on to “The Liberace Show. ” Now, his cookbook—created with the Bling Cooking™ expert chefs at Liberace’s beloved Riviera Hotel and Casino where he entertained for more than 20 years—shows you how to whip up the blingiest concoctions, proving that more is definitely More. This is the retro cookbook of the century; the cookbook that will go in everyone’s time capsule.Pulled together with the panache that is the signature of the world’s greatest entertainer extraordinaire, the king of exuberant excess, Joy of Liberace features many never-before-published personal and candid photographs of Liberace with family and friends, images as over-the-top as Liberace liked to be. Many of these images have been colorized based on meticulous historical research conducted at the Liberace Foundations archival library.