The Playboy Gourmet

Not merely a cookbook, this 1961 "food and drink handbook for the host at home" is an indispensable guide for the Space Age Bachelor (or anyone who fantasizes about being one).

House & Garden's Cook Book

House & Garden is a swanky magazine and this 1958 publication is one swank cookbook -- too swank, in fact, for photographs.

Liberace Cooks

Have you ever tasted Liberace's sticky buns? If not, you're in for a treat.

Celebrity Cooks Recipe Book Volume 1
Celebrity Cooks Recipe Book II
The New Celebrity Cooks Cookbook

Beachcomber Bruno Gerussi cooks up a trio of celebrity recipe books with the aid of "international" and Canadian celebrities obscure even by Canuck standards.

Stage West Celebrity Cookbook

Stars of the big and small screen who contributed recipes to this 1986 book include Lou "Incredible Hulk" Ferrigno , Don "Get Smart" Adams, Barry "Brady Bunch" Williams, Cloris "Phyllis" Leachman, Tom "Newhart" Poston, Norman "Three's Company, The Ropers" Fell, Jamie "M*A*S*H" Farr, and perennial favorite (8 productions) Gale "I Love Lucy" Gordon.

Famous Foods From Famous Places

Not normally noted for swank cuisine, Better Homes and Gardens features recipes from some of America's toniest restaurants in this 1964 cookbook, including New York's Hotel Pierre and Lüchows, and Antoine's and Brennan's of New Orleans. There's McDonald's, too, but turns out it's a tea room in Missouri.