Louise Brooks’ Knickerbocker Chicken Supreme

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Oh what a beauty!  Louise is definitely in my top three most beautiful screen icons.   I just love her on screen, and love all her studio shots and publicity photos too.  What a babe. I made her favourite recipe tonight for two lovely men that I have no doubt if she had met she would [...]

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Anna Mae Wong’s Tea Cakes

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I’ve got a day off work today and it is bliss.  I’ve got a batch of tea cakes in the oven and I’m still not dressed at 11am.  I’m sure that Anna Mae would have worn something a little more slinky than a muu muu in the kitchen but there is a certain pleasure in [...]

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Marion Davies’ Meadow Cheesecake

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Well Marion’s cheesecake was the biggest hit yet with my work colleagues.  Marie pronounced it to be “Possibly the BEST CAKE IN THE WORLD!” and Edward G said, “great, really great, REALLY great” between mouthfulls.  It was still warm from the oven as I had made it before work – oh yummy.  Soooooo looking forward [...]

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Marion Davies’ Cheesecake

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It is taking me a long time to get used to the idea that I can live exactly as I please now I have my own place.  Tonight I am experimenting with doing exactly what I want…  I’ve been DJing with my Sisters all day at a crazy corporate event in Hertfordshire – there were [...]

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Anna Mae Wong’s Chinese Almond Duck version 2

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Edmund read Tuesday’s post and decided that he would like Anna Mae’s Duck for his dinner last night.  He missed the party and wanted to peruse my new flat.  As a man with a penchant for the 1930s I knew he’d like it. As nosey as I am, he particularly enjoyed perching on my bar [...]

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Anna Mae Wong’s Chinese Almond Duck

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Oh my goodness, it feels like being in an industrial kitchen this evening as I try and cook TWO main courses.  AMWs duck – for the first time ever – plus my all time favourite non-silver-screen-suppers dish – Leon’s Sausage, Kale and Flageolets Casserole.  It doesn’t sound like much does it? But my goodness it [...]

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Vincent Price’s Hungarian Goulash

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To say that my housewarming was a humdinger would, I think, be an understatement.  What a wonderful and crazy night it was.  I tried to make a list of everyone who rocked up, I got to 61 people and then realised I was still drunk so had to stop…  It was crrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrazy and fabulous. I [...]

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Josephine Baker’s Spaghetti Bolognaise

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Apologies, apologies.  I am very behind with sending out recipes to test cooks.  I have been running around getting ready for my housewarming and hereby PROMISE to get back on track when I am surrounded by empty beer cans and overflowing ashtrays on Saturday.  Or if it is a REAL humdinger, Sunday.  I’m going to [...]

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Charlie Chaplin’s Apple Roll

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Today I am very excited to report that at last we have a Charlie Chaplin recipe to test.  This is almost the Holy Grail for us (when Marilyn Monroe’s diaries are published in October we will have it!) and this is such a ridiculously exciting moment.  Is this sad? That I’m beside myself with excitement [...]

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Carole Lombard’s Cherry Tart

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Well I learned several lessons making Ronald’s pie last night.  First one was that a small mistake in a recipe can cause absolute chaos!  This is why I am so grateful to all my test cook volunteers, because if I make a howler like there was in Ronald’s, hopefully someone will spot it before it [...]

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