Sports
Stars Cookbook
By Harvey Shapiro
This is a unique
idea for a book that I still like. We published this
work back in 1978 and I believe we have about 75 copies
left.
It is a 289 page work featuring short biographies,
photos and recipes from some 137 sports stars. For
the auto racing fan you will find Mario Andretti,
Art Arfons, Peter DePaolo, Larry Dickson, Pancho Carter,
Bill France, Don Garlits, Janet Guthrie, “Ohio”
George Montgomery, Shirley “Cha-Cha” Muldowney,
wally Parks, Roger Penske, Richard Petty, Johnny Rutherford,
tom Sneva, Bobby Unser, Don Vesco.
Author Shapiro also interviewed stars from other sports
ranging from baseball (PeeWee Reese), Bowling (Don
Carter) , Football (Lyle Alzado) Tennis (Arthur Ashe,
Billie Jean King) Golf (Johnny Miller) Hockey (Keith
Magnuson) Ice Skaters (Anne Henning). There are many
more celebrities from the aforementioned sports included
as well.
The recipes are written in the stars own words and
the book is indexed from Apples To Vegetables.
Shapiro put in a tremendous amount of effort to produce
this memorable work that makes for great reading,
even without the recipes. It is a very user friendly
book as well because we went to considerable expense
installing a plastic lay-flat binding on it that allows
you to read it while you prepare the food.
