Eat Like Walt: The Wonderful World of Disney Food

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 in Better Homes & Gardens magazine. 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. Searching for that perfect gift for the Disney theme park fan in your life? Explore more archival-quality books from Disney Editions: Holiday Magic at the Disney ParksThe Disney Monorail: Imagineering a Highway in the SkyWalt Disney's Ultimate Inventor: The Genius of Ub IwerksOne Day at Disney: Meet the People Who Make the Magic Across the GlobeMarc Davis in His Own Words: Imagineering the Disney Theme ParksYesterday's Tomorrow: Disney's Magical Mid-CenturyMaps of the Disney Parks: Charting 60 Years from California to ShanghaiThe Haunted Mansion: Imagineering a Disney ClassicPoster Art of the Disney Parks