TV Guide Celebrity Cookbook: Anne Murray and a Galaxy of TV Stars Share Their Favorite Recipes

Janet Arnett is the former campus manager of adult education at Ontario’s Georgian College. She is the author of Antiques and Collectibles: Starting Small, The Grange at Knock, and 673 Ways to Save Money.

Each of approximately 100 well-known names from TV land tell us how to
make their favorite edible, which could be pizza, molasses cookies,
pepper stew, bruschetta, fondue, or meat loaf. The collection is grouped
not by type of food but by the segment of the TV world that the celeb
calls home—hosts, comedy, music, news, drama, soaps, chefs, sports.
You’ll find hamburgers under both sports and chefs; fish under hosts,
soaps, and news. Fortunately, you won’t be relying on this book for
your routine meal prep.

The recipes are varied and made intriguing by the snippets of text that
accompany them. For each, there’s a few lines to anchor the celebrity
in the context of food; then comes the quick zoom in on the famous
one’s reasons for wanting to share this particular recipe. Of course
you’ll enjoy your cherry cake more, knowing as you now do that at
Christmas Anne Murray has cake made from the very same recipe. After
those sentimental crumbs, you cut to the ingredients list, then the
method, and maybe a color photo of the food—not the celeb (they’re
shown in black and white, if at all). A cookbook that’s weird, but
fun.