The Life and Cuisine Of Elvis Presley

By David A. Adler

1993

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160

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Nothing was more important to Elvis Presley than his menu: buttery biscuits, six-egg omelets served with a pound of burnt bacon, fried dill pickles, grits and cheese, bologna cups, Miss Vertie's sweet potato pie, Coletta's barbecue pizza, turnip greens, crowder peas, fried peanut butter and banana sandwiches. Food was Elvis' first and most lasting love. Elvis cuisine reflects his life - both innocent and fabulous - and, in the end, possibly just too much. Elvis cuisine is Southern cooking raised to baroque new heights. Elvis cuisine is snacking without guilt. Elvis cuisine is eating whenever, whatever, and however much you want. Elvis cuisine is literally food lust. To write The Life and Cuisine of Elvis Presley, David Adler set out to discover exactly what Elvis ate at every stage of his life and career, from the 1940s through the 1970s. He went where Elvis ate and talked to the people Elvis ate with to get more than 70 actual recipes and the fascinating, untold stories. In Tupelo, he learned about young Elvis' favorite dishes at a family reunion at Elvis' birthplace. In Memphis, he interviewed the head of the Memphis Nutrition Services and discovered what Elvis ate at the Humes High cafeteria. He traveled to the Army Cook School in Fort Lee, Virginia, to experience firsthand the nuances of Elvis' chow in the service. He sampled the opulent buffets of Las Vegas, the spectacular luaus of Hawaii, and the glitzy fare of Hollywood. And to top it all off, Elvis' Graceland cook made dinner for David served on the King's own plates. This is the definitive Elvis cookbook. And it includes stories about the King and his eating style that will delight, shock, and surprise even the most knowledgeable Elvis fan or curious person. The Life and Cuisine of Elvis Presley is the first book to explore the last great frontier of Elvis' life - his stomach.

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Author

David A. Adler

Author · 215 books

David Abraham Adler is an American children's author. He was born in New York City, New York in 1947. He graduated from Queens College in 1968 with a bachelor's degree in economics and education. For the next nine years, he worked as a mathematics teacher for the New York City Board of Education, while taking classes towards a master's degree in marketing, a degree he was awarded by New York University in 1971. In that same year, a question from his then-three-year-old nephew inspired Adler to write his first story, A Little at a Time, subsequently published by Random House in 1976. Adler's next project, a series of math books, drew on his experience as a math teacher. In 1977, he created his most famous character, Cam Jansen, originally featured in Cam Jansen and the Mystery of the Stolen Diamonds, which was published that year. Adler married psychologist Renee Hamada in 1973, and their first child, Michael, was born in 1977. By that time Adler had taken a break from teaching and, while his wife continued her work, he stayed home, took care of Michael, and began a full-time writing career. Adler's son, Michael S. Adler, is now the co-author of several books with his father, including A Picture Book of Sam Adams, A Picture Book of John Hancock, and A Picture Book of James and Dolly Madison. Another son, Edward, was the inspiration for Adler's Andy Russell series, with the events described in the series loosely based on adventures the Adler family had with Edward's enthusiasm and his pets. As of November 2008, Adler has three sons and two grandsons. He lives in Woodmere, New York. (source: Wikipedia)