If you've ever fantasized about feasting on Frank Sinatra's Barbecued Lamb, lunching on Lucille Ball's "Chinese-y Thing," diving ever-so-neatly into Joan Crawford's Poached Salmon, or wrapping your lips around Rock Hudson's cannoli and really, who hasn't? hold on to your oven mitts!

In , Frank DeCarothe flamboyantly funny Sirius XM radio personality best known for his six-and-a-half-year stint as the movie critic on The Daily Show with Jon Stewartcollects hundreds of recipes passed on from legendary stars of stage and screen, proving that before there were celebrity chefs, there were celebrities who fancied themselves chefs.

Their all-but-forgotten recipesrescued from out-of-print cookbooks, musty biographies, vintage magazines, and dusty pamphletssuggest a style of home entertaining ripe for reexamination if not revival, while reminding intrepid gourmands that, for better or worse, Hollywood doesn't make celebrities (or cooks) like it used to.

Starring

Elizabeth Taylor's Chicken with Avocado and Mushrooms

Farrah Fawcett's Sausage and Peppers

Liberace's Sticky Buns

Bette Davis's Red Flannel Hash

Bea Arthur's Good Morning Mushroom Tomato Toast

Dudley Moore's Crme Brle

Gypsy Rose Lee's Portuguese Fish Chowder

John Ritter's Famous Fudge

Andy Warhol's Ghoulish Goulash

Vincent Price's Pepper Steak

Johnny Cash's Old Iron Pot Family-Style Chili

Vivian Vance's Chicken Kiev

Sebastian Cabot's Avocado Surprise

Lawrence Welk's Vegetable Croquettes

Ann Miller's Cheese Souffl

Jerry Orbach's Trifle

Totie Fields's Fruit Mellow

Irene Ryan's Tipsy Basingstoke

Klaus Nomi's Key Lime Tart

Richard Deacon's Bitter and Booze

Sonny Bono's Spaghetti with Fresh Tomato Sauce

And many others from breakfast to dessert.