One of my longtime favorite film writers, Leonard Maltin, reached out to let me know he had spent much of his recent cruise through the Panama Canal immersed in reading Appetite for America. If you check out his blog post on it today, you’ll see his enthusiasm for the book and Fred.

He writes about his Princess cruise (during which he lectures on film) and the four books he got a chance to read during the journey: “… best of all, a magnificent volume that made a number of 2010 ten best lists, Stephen Fried’s Appetite for America, the saga of Fred Harvey and how he civilized the West with fine dining and well-trained waitresses known as Harvey Girls. I’d recommend them all, but the Harvey book is a particular gem.”

Happy Harvey New Year, Leonard. I’ll look for you at the rapidly growing Fred Harvey section on ebay.

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