Fit for a King: The Elvis Presley Cookbook [Hardcover]

Elizabeth McKeon (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: June 9, 1998

More than three hundred recipes for foods Elvis enjoyed, many of them provided by his long-time cook, Alvena Roy. Contains rare photos and delightful anecdotes and quotations. Illustrated and indexed.

--This text refers to the Plastic Comb edition.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 240 pages
• Publisher: Gramercy (June 9, 1998)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0517189178
• ISBN-13: 978-0517189177
• Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 6 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 13.6 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (11 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,238,466 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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6 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Eat like Elvis!, December 21, 2001

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Bonnie Burton (San Francisco) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Fit for a King: The Elvis Presley Cookbook (Hardcover)

It's probably not the best idea to eat like Elvis all the time, but nothing beats his recipes for peanut butter and banana
sandwiches or fried okra. Elvis sure loved his fried foods. Learn how to make Southern cuisine and mouth-watering desserts fit
for dinner at your own Graceland, but don't over do it. After all, Elvis didn't end up a skinny-minny from eating all that fried
chicken cooked in pancake batter. (...)

8 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Mother in Law Loved it!, December 14, 2000

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This review is from: Fit For A King: The Elvis Presley Cookbook (Plastic Comb)

My mother in law is an Elvis fanatic, so I thought this would be cute to add to her Elvis things. Since recipes come from his cook and plenty of pictures alot have never seen. She actually uses the recipes too. She loves it.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Sorry excuse for a cookbook, April 9, 2010

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V. Wright "mmoon" (North Carolina) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Fit For A King: The Elvis Presley Cookbook (Plastic Comb)

This book is a perfect example of everyone and their Mama availing themselves of the easy opportunity to make some mega bucks off the death of Elvis. It's only worth would be to a die-hard Elvis fan, and then only for the photos of Elvis. Most of those in the book have been printed elsewhere by now, however, so even that is subjective. As for being useful as a recipe or cookbook, it's the worst I've ever owned and will go into my yard sale or donation pile. The recipes don't seem as if anyone actually tried them, and if Elvis did eat them, no wonder he died. Not only from the grease in all the food ( one recipe even called for pouring grease into a frying pan in order to fry FAT BACK or salt pork!! )but probably to get away from eating all those poorly made dishes.

I felt the authors made up many of the recipes, as I know no one here in the south who makes banana pudding without using any vanilla wafers!! The book was also quite silly, as who needs a definition key in the back to explain to them the meaning of "chill" or "roast" or "mince" or even "STIR"???!!! The few recipes that did seem to sound a little believable, were mostly ones I've seen in common recipe books for the last 40 years. The author seemed to be grasping for recipes to include, as who needs a recipe for French Toast that is nothing but milk, egg, and white loaf bread??? Everything else was slop, not just due to Elvis and his family's supposed love of lard, white bread, and gelatin, but because the recipes are all poorly conceived. The whole book, in fact, came off as an insult to Elvis, to Southerners, and most of all just a waste of good paper.