Which celebs are or were very good cooks?

KH

Yum!

Miss Patti LaBelle

Her sweet potato pie is a staple at my holiday dinners.

r3 beat me to it!

Valerie Bertinelli, love her show.

How could you forget that culinary genius herself - Joanie?!?!

Helen Lawson.

Joan was famous for her “Spanish Dinner”, when she could find all the ingredients in the supermarket. Spanish sowsages, lobster and Pepsi Cola were the chief ingredients.

Audrey Hepburn’s Chocolate Cake recipe from the cookbook 'Audrey at Home' written by her son, Luca Dotti.

Valerie Bertinelli (already mentioned) and Trisha Yearwood have their own cooking shows. Patricia Heaton used to. Rachael Ray, obviously. Dinah Shore used to cook on her shows and had cookbooks.

Karen Carpenter's cookbook "From My Kitchen to Yours" is legendary.

Aretha Franklin

I'll get chased outta here with caftans flowing, but Amy Schumer's cooking show with her husband is good to great. He's a chef, and super chill, and she can be pretty damn funny.

R11, I picked up Karen's follow-up, "Dining on a Budget: Essential Tips to Cutting Your Food Costs" at a flea market for 5 cents. The book was rather thin.

I'm not sure if she was a good cook or not, but I've wanted a copy of Monique Van Vooren's 1978 cookbook "The Happy Cooker" (a play on The Happy Hooker) for years. But I've found it impossible to find a hardback copy in good shape at a decent price.

From what I've read the book contains several recipes containing wacky ingredients like Spanish Fly & marijuana. LOL.

A six year old can make spaghetti, Sophia

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R12 doesn't look kosher.

I have a question about Rachel Ray -- is she a celebrity who cooks? I thought she was a celebrity chef (or cook). The guy from LA Law, Michael Tucker, was a renowned cook. Richard Deacon wrote a book and hosted a tv show on microwave cooking. I have it around here somewhere and it's bizarre.

Trisha Yearwood has a show on FN because Garth Brooks is one of the silent owners.

Loved recipes for Darfur casserole in "Food is Optional" by Angelina Jolie

Vincent Price

Jackie on Assistance & Andy Warhol's "50 Fast Recipes for Pilfered Canned Food"

[quote]Trisha Yearwood has a show on FN because Garth Brooks is one of the silent owners.

The silent owners of WHAT? Food Network is owned by Discovery and Nexstar, both publicly-traded corporations.

Didn't Danny Kaye used to go on and on about visiting chefs and then he'd make like he was the big chef responsible for dinner or try to compete with the chef he was visiting? Maybe he was looking for things to serve to Larry O?

Danny Kaye's lemon pasta

Danny Kaye was actually an excellent chef.

Freddie Prinze, Jr.

Marlene Dietrich prided herself on her cooking, though I don't know if she was actually any good.

R14, Karen's best recipes were definitely her Cream of Ipecac Soup and Beef Purge-ignon.

I read in someone's memoir that Danny Kaye had a sort of bar built in his kitchen, that was circular, and guests would sit and the bar and he would cook, and that he wouldn't join them in dinner - he focused on cooking for his guests. Almost like a modern "chef's table" in a restaurant, before such things existed. And this book (wish I could remember the title) also mentioned the lemon pasta specifically!