This representative sampling from the daybooks of Carl Van Vechten, one of the most significant figures of the Harlem Renaissance, is a resource and reference tool for reconstructing the culture of 1920s New York and the social milieu during Prohibition. Bruce Kellner has provided notes identifying central figures and clarifying details.Between 1922 and 1930, Van Vechten kept a daily record of his activities. Not exactly diaries, but more than appointment books, the daybooks record his daily comings and goings as well as the alliances, drinking habits, feuds, and affairs of a wide number of luminaries of the period. They catalog tales of bootlegging, literary teas, shifting cliques of artists and writers, cabaret slumming, sexual and social peccadilloes, and a seemingly endless sequence of parties.

The Splendid Drunken Twenties: Selections from the Daybooks, 1922-1930

Bruce Kellner

Carl, Van Vechten

Literature & Fiction

University of Illinois Press

A memoir masquerading as a cookbook. Following the chronology of our daily meals, Bruce Kellner's culinary journey includes an extraordinary collection of recipes--from forgotten favorites like Salt Rising Bread, to exotic specialities like Garlic Ice Cream invented by silent screen vamp Theda Bara, to a lethal punch invented to make enemies love each other, to a chapter about leftovers called "What to do with the cold mutton." What's For Dinner is as rich in ancedote as it is in practical advice for both the beginning cook and the experienced chef.

What's for Dinner, Also Breakfast Lunch and in Between

White Sand Lake Press, Ltd.

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The Splendid Drunken Twenties: Selections from the Daybooks, 1922-1930

What's for Dinner, Also Breakfast Lunch and in Between