Product Description

Make room for the latest in the independent, iconoclastic, and utterly outrageous Wild Women series. Part cookbook, part history, part eye-opening entertainment, this lively compendium of little-known facts, recipes, and folklore includes 200 titillating tales and radical recipes from such wild women as Elizabeth Taylor, Alice B. Toklas, Sarah Bernhardt, and Lucille Ball. Photos & illustrations.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #463572 in Books
• Published on: 1996-06
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 256 pages

Amazon.com Review
This is not only a serious cookbook, it's also all about women's history. The Wild Woman Association was started with the publication of Autumn Stephen's Wild Women in 1992, and its primary purpose is to rediscover and rewrite our wild foresisters back into history! Here's a book with Isadora Duncan's asparagus salad, Alice B. Toklas's original fudge, Cleopatra's orgiastic oysters, and more, interspersed by highly entertaining stories about the wild women and their wild, scrumptious recipes! As another wild woman, Julia Child used to say, "Bon Appetit!" Guys can buy this book, too--try some of the luscious concoctions yourselves and maybe learn a thing or two about your wild sisters and mothers and wives!

Customer Reviews

Fabulously Funny Feminist Flambes!
This is the most FUN cookbook I've ever read: the recipes are real--easy-to-do and delicious; the snippets about renowned women's lives and the recipe dedications to them are entertaining, intelligent and sly. I've never before encountered a cookbook that I couldn't put down 'til I'd finished reading it! And...I've always KNOWN that I'm right--champagne and chocolate cream pie DO go together!!

the kitchen heathen's comments
I am NOT a cook but this amusing book provides an entertaining daydream. Anyone with this sense of humour gets my vote- and I read the book from cover to cover for its short witty anecdotes about famous women. Without cooking anything (yet) it was great fun and I have given it as a present to many people -just for the descriptions. "My Kingdom for a Pizza" "Cleopatras Pearls" "For whom the Chips Toll " etc "Eleanor's Eggs" (Roosevelt) could perhaps do with a witty frozen storage section for our modern misses- but cannibalism isn't included in the book- as yet! I wait for the next edition with baited breath .

Fun
Fun book and interesting stories. The recipes are so-so. I tried to make a few things and they are just ok.