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An adventurer in the classic sense, Hugh Millais has made a career of being in the right place at the right time. Now, in his 78th year, Millais has chosen to release a unique memoir, the Name Dropper’s Cookbook. The great grandson of painter John Everett Millais, Hugh Millais is the sort of well connected Epicure we’d all like to have round for dinner. In the process of building Salvador Dali’s house, living with Orson Welles for a year, sleeping between Ava Gardner and Marlene Dietrich and seeing his great friend Hemingway cry giving away his last bottle of vodka, Hugh picked up his friends’ favourite recipes along the way. Spanning countless countries and with an outrageous anecdote for every dish, The Name Dropper’s Cookbook is an ingenious look at the life and times of Hugh Millais and his notorious friends.