Palm Beach Roots and Recipes

Charles Reese has written an insightful history about his family, who helped develop South Florida & founded Palm Beach. His great-great-grandfather, Captain Elisha Newton Dimick, whose statue is on the cover with the author, owned the first hotel in Palm Beach known as the Cocoanut Grove House. He was much loved for his warm personality & was elected to the House of Representatives & Florida Senate to represent Dade County, which then encompassed much of South Florida. He was later elected the first Mayor of Palm Beach. The author's great-grandfather, Tipton T. Reese, & grandfather, Claude Dimick Reese, also served as mayors of this famous town. Charles Reese, who learned to cook at an early age at his family ranch, shares many of his own creations along with family recipes that are delicious. This charming history-cookbook of the beginning of Palm Beach will make a wonderful addition to all libraries. It will also be of great interest to the general public who equate Palm Beach to the rich & famous & would like to know some of its unusual history. It is a must.Reese, Charles D. is the author of 'Palm Beach Roots and Recipes', published 1991 under ISBN 9780962926600 and ISBN 0962926604.