LOUIS ARMSTRONG ON NEW ORLEANS COOKING.ARMSTRONG, LOUIS. 1901-1971. Autograph Letter Signed ("Satchmo" and "Louis Armstrong") to Alice Negrotto reminiscing on his favorite New Orleans foods, 5 pp, 216 x 138 mm, rectos of individual sheets of Tropicana Hotel & Country Club, Las Vegas, Dec. 30th, 1970, numbered by Armstrong in ink.
Provenance: Alice Negrotto, author of Favorite Foods of Famous People; by descent.
A LONG WARM & HUMOROUS LETTER FROM SATCHMO ON LOUISIANA COOKING. Beginning with a poem, "Mary had a little bear/ The bear was mighty fine/ Every Mary went/ You'd see her bear behind," Armstrong writes an exuberant letter on the Louisiana cooking of his mother and his wife, "Red beans and rice with ham-hock's is my birthmark, not to mention some pig's tail & cabbage & rice which my mother Mary Ann along with everybody else in New Orleans would cook and serve us, me and my sister (Mama Lucy) for our dinner on New Year's Day." He describes his wife Lucille cooking red beans and rice for his stint co-hosting the Mike Douglas show for a week: "...the director-producer-stage hands=the musicians-Cesar Romero the actor-Earl Wilson the columnist-Joe Williams... just arrived from California. He ate so fast he looked like he was smilin'. I had to put in that boarding house reach to get mine - yea...." A lively letter from Satchmo on homestyle cooking!
LOUIS ARMSTRONG ON NEW ORLEANS COOKING.ARMSTRONG, LOUIS. 1901-1971. Autograph Letter Signed ("Satchmo" and "Louis Armstrong") to Alice Negrotto reminiscing on his favorite New Orleans foods, 5 pp, 216 x 138 mm, rectos of individual sheets of Tropicana Hotel & Country Club, Las Vegas, Dec. 30th, 1970, numbered by Armstrong in ink.
Provenance: Alice Negrotto, author of Favorite Foods of Famous People; by descent.
A LONG WARM & HUMOROUS LETTER FROM SATCHMO ON LOUISIANA COOKING. Beginning with a poem, "Mary had a little bear/ The bear was mighty fine/ Every Mary went/ You'd see her bear behind," Armstrong writes an exuberant letter on the Louisiana cooking of his mother and his wife, "Red beans and rice with ham-hock's is my birthmark, not to mention some pig's tail & cabbage & rice which my mother Mary Ann along with everybody else in New Orleans would cook and serve us, me and my sister (Mama Lucy) for our dinner on New Year's Day." He describes his wife Lucille cooking red beans and rice for his stint co-hosting the Mike Douglas show for a week: "...the director-producer-stage hands=the musicians-Cesar Romero the actor-Earl Wilson the columnist-Joe Williams... just arrived from California. He ate so fast he looked like he was smilin'. I had to put in that boarding house reach to get mine - yea...." A lively letter from Satchmo on homestyle cooking!
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