Dinner and a Movie
Classic movies paired with genuine recipes from the stars’ own kitchens.
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Barbara Stanwyck’s bikkies for our FREE watch party (opens the original)
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I don’t know if Kipfels can be called biscuits (in the British sense rather than the American sense)<img alt="The American Biscuit – The Biscuit Bestiary" class="sizing-normal" height="480" src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!YRsF!,w_1456,c_limit
Shirley Jones Goes Triscuit Crazy! (opens the original)
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In Hastings?I’m really chuffed to have been invited to read a couple of passages from Cooking The Detectives<img alt="" class="sizing-normal" height="1490" src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!kmJO!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressi
City Chicken Madness (opens the original)
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A bonkers contraptionAhhh, I finally got around to using a Christmas gift Mr Rathbone gave me many moons ago. This little number…<img alt="" class="sizing-normal" height="964" src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!tMyK!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_a
Louise Brooks made walnut fudge (opens the original)
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I am obsessed with what movie stars liked to eat, drink and cook, and when I started noticing mentions of fudge in this collection of letters from Louise Brooks<img alt="" class="sizing-normal" height="1941" src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!VN9h!,w_1456
I love Lulu (opens the original)
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Readers’ Rustle-upsI truly love it when readers get in touch to say they have tried a movie-star recipe I have shared. My fellow film archivist Louise P sent me a photo of Joan Fontaine’s Chicken Fontaine on the go…<a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!K5q0!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F57e7a080-1f53-4046-887a-38a4989ef439_1536x2048.heic" target
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