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...anyone who has ever dreamed of partying on the beach with a huge, all-the-fixin's clambake--complete with damp rocks, a recalcitrant fire and lobsters that trudge purposefully out from under the tarp--Sheila Lukins' U.S.A. Cookbook (Workman; $19.95) is the way to go. Better to read about her fresh peas than harvest your own bullets, and to serve her herbed bass than your limp concoction that drives the guests out after the lobsters...
...glory of peaches (part of the rose family, she reports). Lukins writes with the unforced authority of her affection for the U.S., which she crisscrossed 50 times to gather the 600 recipes here. United Airlines has just gone American and is serving 36,000 dishes a day from U.S.A. Cookbook. As porch reading, it's a whopper, but it would be hard to find a better culinary guide to the salad days of summer...
Barbara Haber, curator of books at Schlesinger Library, said the library was contacted in July by the lawyer for Fitzgerald's estate about the donation of her extensive cookbook collection...
According to Fran Morris-Rosman, one of the directors of the Ella Fitzgerald Charitable Foundation and the archivist of Fitzgerald's estate, the foundation decided to donate her cookbooks to Harvard because the Schlesinger Library has the best cookbook collection in the country...
...Ella Fitzgerald was inordinately proud of her cookbook collection," Morris-Rosman said. "In interviews, she almost always mentioned them...