282 Ways of Making a Salad, including Some Special Salads, Salad Dressings and Favourite Recipes by British and American Personalities and Stars...

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Inscribed on the flyleaf by both editors: 'With my best wishes, Bebe Daniels', a little doodle beneath her name; 'And with my best wishes, Jill Allgood'. The former an American film-star, based in London since the mid-1930s, the latter a British radio producer and writer - whose friendship with her co-editor would later yield a biography of Daniels and her husband, Ben Lyon (among the contributors here).Their dedications at the head of the work set the project in the context of the recent War: Allgood considers it a 'continuation of our work together' during the conflict (the radio series 'Hi Gang!' - though rather different in nature, it does have contributors in common); Daniels, meanwhile, refers to the relaxation of rationing, in paying tribute to 'those unsung heroines the British housewives who, at last, can get some of the tools with which to do the job'.The recipes from starry quarters include the rather unadventurous - Laurence Olivier and Vivien Leigh collaborate on a 'Green Salad for a Salad Bowl', or Gregory Peck's 'Leaf Lettuce Salad' - to the more outlandish contributions of Humphrey Bogart ('Asparagus with Tongue and Cheese'), Richard Attenborough and Sheila Sim ('Fruit and Jelly Mould', which involves crumbling a set fruit jelly over lettuce hearts and seasonal fruit), 'Chicken and Pineapple Aspic' (a contribution by the editors) or Lionel Barrymore's 'Jellied Walnut-Apple Salad'. Bob Hope, Lauren Bacall, Tyrone Power, John Mills, Arthur Askey, Veronica Lake, Bing Crosby and Betty Grable are among the other contributors.