The Elvis Presley Cookbook Fun Facts and Simple Southern Comfort Recipes Fit for a King by Elizabeth McKeon; Ralph Gevirtz; Julie Bandy

Rating: 5 star rating

This is the Elvis Presley Cookbook: Fun Facts and Simple Southern Comfort Recipes Fit for a King. It has good old-fashioned comfort food. This book was written by Elizabeth McKeon, Ralph Gevirtz, and Julie Bandy. It is a 160-page hardcover book, but it is not just a recipe book. It is packed with old photos of Elvis and his family with music trivia. There are nearly 100 recipes, and they came from Alvena Roy, who was Elvis’s actual cook at Graceland.

This is some of the food Elvis ate. The food is all simple Southern cooking. There is the famous fried peanut butter and banana sandwich, but also regular stuff like buttermilk biscuits, meatloaf, pork chops with sauerkraut. It even tells you exactly what Elvis ate during major moments in his life. The recipes use cheap, normal ingredients that you can buy at any grocery store.

The book ends by explaining how much Elvis loved sharing food. It does not get into any of the sad or tragic stuff about the end of his life, which I really liked. 

This is a quick read, and it would look great on a coffee table or make a great gift for friends or family.

Thank you, NetGalley, Harper Celebrate, and the authors Elizabeth McKeon, Ralph Gevirtz, and Julie Bandy for the book review consideration. All opinions are my own.

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