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Anyone who reads has toured parts of this fun house before. Budd Schulberg and Nathanael West spurned it in novels. Elderly actresses and directors have told gaudy lies to their tape recorders. What Author Otto Friedrich contributes in City of Nets (Harper & Row; 512 pages; $25) is a lucid, darkly funny recounting that threads the loopy stories and the titanic egos into a coherent narrative. Friedrich, a TIME senior writer, clearly cherishes the surreal nuttiness of Hollywood's great days...
...Harper and Row, 233 pages...
...Fantasy American Cookery could have been the title of the book by Jeremiah Tower, the over-celebrated chef and co-owner of both the Santa Fe Bar and Grill in Berkeley and Stars in San Francisco. But with no false modesty, he chose to call it New American Classics (Harper & Row; $25). Translation: the bizarre California-style dishes Tower created for his trendy restaurants. There is a windy self-congratulatory text, a double-page spread reproducing the author's signature and some superfluous vista photographs a la Falcon Crest. Inevitably, there are many of the California cliches -- hot goat cheese...
Totally self-effacing in the interests of her material, Elizabeth Schneider has written what may be the timeliest and most truly helpful book of the year. Uncommon Fruits and Vegetables (Harper & Row; $25) covers in detail all the exotic fruits and vegetables now appearing in produce departments across the country. In words and pictures she tells readers how to identify, buy, store, clean and prepare jicama, atemoya, daikon, nopales and calabaza, among dozens of others. Although some of the fruits and vegetables in this compendium are hardly uncommon to old-world chefs (celeriac, parsley root, arugula, broccoli rab and gooseberries...
...Harper...