Elmore Leonard

This is a comprehensive collection of authentic recipes, some 500 in all, for drinks and dishes that more than 150 American authors since the late 18th century are known to have enjoyed. The book should appeal to amateur chefs and so-called "foodies" who may want to test some of the recipes in their kitchens; to American literature instructors and scholars who may use it as a teaching tool; and general readers who will read it for pleasure.

I really enjoyed this book. It read like an Elmore Leonard novel in that it kept making me think of L.A. Confidential, both the book and the movie, with its Noir atmosphere. And early Holly Wood History is fascinating, the struggle to produce the illusion of glamour was a full time job and with the reality of the many actors and actresses being of fairly low breeding with drugs and alcohol running rampant the pretense was nearly impossible to maintain.