Dining with the Hope Diamond: The Friendship Estate Cookbook

Hardcover

In addition to art depicting the Hope Diamond and the Friendship Estate (presently McLean Gardens) with excerpts from historic publications describing the colorful Friendship Estate events, this cookbook has 400 recipes — historic and contemporary — of the last private owners of the Hope Diamond and the Friendship Estate: Evalyn Walsh McLean and her husband, Edward B. McLean and their family, well-known Friendship Estate guests and former neighbors. In addition, there are the favorite recipes of residents of the McLean Gardens neighborhood. From the Back Cover: “Mike, the handsome Great Dane portrayed on the cover by world-renowned artist Richard Haas, lived at the Friendship Estate– site of present-day McLean Gardens– with Ned and Evalyn Walsh McLean, the last private owners of the Hope Diamond. It is rumored that Mike occasionally sported the world’s most famous blue diamond as he roamed luxurious and romantic Friendship– and it is believed that he lost the gem more than once. Included in this cookbook are recipes from the McLean and Walsh families and many well-known Friendship guests and neighbors–and also from McLean Gardens residents…local restaurants, houses of worship, businesses and one fine school. Recipes were also contributed by the Indonesian Embassy, whose magnificent mansion was Evalyn Walsh McLean’s childhood home.”