Clinton library’s food for thought

Want to fry like an Eagle? For $35, you can. That’s the price of “The Clinton Presidential Center Cookbook,” a fundraiser for President Bill Clinton’s library foundation that includes recipes from the ultra-famous to the common folk. Eagles singer Don Henley sent his recipes for homemade corn dogs and fresh peach cobbler and U2 singer Bono provided his for Black Velvet, a drink made with Guinness Irish stout. Other celebrity contributions include Barbra Streisend’s Southern lemon ice box pie, which she once served at a luncheon she gave for Clinton, and actress Mary Steenburgen’s garlic cheese grits recipe, said Nealon DeVore, co-editor of the cookbook. The rest of the 250 recipes come from people ranging from former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright (Czech sauerkraut) to landscapers working on the library, which has a projected completion date of November 2004. The cookbook, which will be ready by the end of August or early September, is available through the Web site

www.clintonpresidentialcenter.com/cookbook.

-- Randy Lewis