Eat,Drink,Animate, An Animator's Cookbook

19/08/2026

18/08/2026

One more Grim Natwick story. A few years ago I wrote a cookbook for animators. The idea for the project was once while working for Dick Williams, Dick had me assist some scenes of Grim Natwick. In gratitude, Grim gave me his personal chili recipe, of which he was very proud. Working from this, and a few other recipes from Marc & Alice Davis, including Mary Blair's martini, I put out Eat, Drink Animate, an Animator's Cookbook in 2019. A lot of people enjoyed it, and it even won an international award. So thank you, Grim.
(img: At his birthday party, L-R Walter Lantz, age 90, Grim Natwick, age 100, Mae Questel the voice of Betty Boop, age 82.

18/06/2026

I'm just bursting my buttons (and not just because I'm an old fat bastard) that Eat Drink Animate was awarded at an SAS trivia contest. Thank you Prof Daisy Church (University of Hawaii) an everyone attending SAS!

Check out these sweet animation pub trivia prizes at Society for Animation Studies !!! (and whose team won second place with a copy of Eat, Drink, Animate!) ❤ Cheers from Pittsburgh!

27/03/2026

Whatever govt' agency that names holidays has decreed March 27 is National Spanish Paella Day! Yahoo! Here is a home made Paella from our animation friends Raul and Rocio Garcia.

22/03/2026

What Disney's cafeteria celebrating its 86 birthday.

26/02/2026

Thanks Antonio Marques for finding this little gem from the MGM publicity Dept. Hedy Lamarr was an Austrian born Hollywood star who sidelined as a scientist. The results of her 1940s research into radio wave frequency provide the basis for the smart phones we use today . But in true Hollywood sexist style here she is shown working in her kitchen with MGM animation star Screwy Squirrel. Yum, yum!

14/02/2026

https://www.amazon.com/I-Never-Asked-Why-Me/dp/1986066010/ref=sr_1_1?crid=3KZH7OJU1R3OH&keywords=enid+denbo&qid=1679714812&sprefix=enid+denbo%2Caps%2C113&sr=8-1 On Feb 12 the amazing Enid Denbo Wizig passed away at age 103. Enid was in Chuck Jones unit - As an inbetweener. She was trained by Bill Melendez and Art Babbitt to be an assistant animator working alongside Ben Washam, Ken Harris and Lloyd Vaughn. in Chuck's unit in 1943-44. She left Warners in 1947. One of the last living hires of the Leon Schlesinger Studio. And in Eat, Drink Animate she shares her recipe for blintzes!

Enid Denbo Wizig is a 95-year-old force of life who defines the concept that age is only a number. Losing her hearing at six months of age never dampened Enid’s spirit and perseverance. As a student, she was a pioneer in mainstream education for deaf students. As a young adult, she claimed a plac....

13/12/2025

Dec. 13, 1936- At the urging of New Yorker editor Harold Ross he find a better line of work, actor Dave Chasen opened Chasen's restaurant in Beverly Hills, which catered to Hollywood stars for 60 years.

It is the restaurant where Leopold Stokowski was introduced to Walt Disney and as a result they conceived "Fantasia". Humphrey Bogart, John Huston and Lauren Bacall met upstairs to discuss the Blacklist of 1947. The Shirley Temple cocktail was invented there so little Shirley Temple could hang with industry types after work. Elizabeth Taylor ordered Chasen’s chili flown out to Rome so she could eat it on the set of Cleopatra. The wrap party for Disney's The Black Cauldron was held there.
The restaurant closed in 1995 because the Chasen family wanted to cash in on the choice real estate. Today it is a supermarket. They keep one original booth intact as a display.

**The recipe for Chasen's Chili is in Eat Drink Animate.

24/09/2025

Very sad to hear of the death of Kyle Clark from cancer. He was only 53. Kyle was a student of mine at USC 25 years ago. Friendly, a real go getter. He was an animator at ILM, and built ReelEfx studio in Dallas. His credits include Star Wars The Phantom Menace, Space Jam and Mortal Kombat. Just a few years after graduating and starting his career, he had the audacity to write a howto book on animation and invited me to write his forward. He has also written two books on how to cook real Texas barbecue. A great example of how far you can go if you dare to try. RIP.

27/07/2025

Congratulations to our old friend, animator turned composer Michael Giacchino for his score for the new Fantastic Four Movie. He also did the score for The Incredibles among many others. And remember Michael gave us his family pasta recipe only for my cookbook, Eat, Drink, Animate. Bravo!