"The Favorite Foods of Famous Players" to benefit The Red Cross and The Actors Fund, compiled by Mabel Rowland
various, 1916
One theme that comes up throughout this Archive is the idea of "Hollywood" as place - both real and imagined. There are community cookbooks from the Hollywoodland neighboprhood association, local film and TV sets, and many recipes from well-known actors and fillmakers.
This cookbook was a fundraiser for the Red Cross on the precipace of America's involvement in WWI. Famous actors such as Charlie Chaplin and Marie Pickford contributed recipes. The book is notable for the large number of male contribtuors (most community cookbooks of this era feature primary women) as well as for docmenting a shift in the public's attention from the New York stage to Hollywood-based film stars.
