Eat Like Walt: The Wonderful World of Disney Food [Hardcover]

Eat Like Walt,explores the lore of each land, beginning with Main Street, U.S.A., an homage to Walt's childhood home of Marceline, Missouri, to Tomorrowland, set in futuristic 1986, a year Disney would not live long enough to see. Although Disneyland opened in 1955, its culinary history dates back to 1923 when Walt Disney first arrived in Hollywood. Walt was a simple eater yet a big dreamer. By 1934, four years before his first feature film,Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, would be released, Mickey Mouse had made him famous enough to have a recipe published inBetter Homes & Gardensmagazine. Ask fans what Walt's favorite food was and most will say, Chili. Chili has a cult status at Disneyland. People want to eat what Walt ate, the way he ate, where he ate it.