MARCY SMOTHERS: I have a cowriter on Delicious Disney, Pam Brandon. But if you’re shopping in the Park, you can buy it now. It’s what they call a Park Exclusive, so it’s not available on Amazon and other bookstores until April. Delicious Disney is a cookbook in celebration of Walt Disney World’s fiftieth anniversary. MARCY SMOTHERS: Actually, that was released on September 28, 2021. JIM DENNEY: And you have another book coming out in April 2022, Delicious Disney. And now Walt Disney World has brought that dream to life.” I was so excited, and I cried, of course. Someone said to me, “It was always my dream one day that people would connect with Walt through the food in the Parks. I’ve just returned from Walt Disney World for the fiftieth anniversary, and at the Crystal Palace in the Magic Kingdom, they had a very specific, pretty darn authentic eat-like-Walt menu with all of Walt’s favorite foods. But along the way, the Disney family became a very big part of the project and they gave me three interviews. I was astounded to find that the culinary history had never been written. With Eat Like Walt, when I pitched it, I saw it as just a culinary history of Disneyland. And in this next book, Walt’s Disneyland, probably a hundred times so. As Herb Ryman once said, it’s a privilege to write about Walt, to present him as a human being, a person you can be close to. MARCY SMOTHERS: Thank you! I really did want to humanize him. ![]() What a great idea-giving us a portrait of Walt Disney through the foods he enjoyed. JIM DENNEY: Marcy, let’s begin with Eat Like Walt. Marcy and I share a wish to see Walt Disney’s legacy live on at Disneyland, and I’m looking forward to reading Marcy’s book when it releases. In fact, I hope this interview helps people find Marcy’s book-and I hope people looking for Marcy’s book will also find mine. ![]() Is the book world big enough to accommodate two books called Walt’s Disneyland? I think so. Before sharing the conversation with you, I need to get one thing out of the way: Yes, Marcy’s 2021 book has the same main title as my 2017 book Walt’s Disneyland: It’s Still There If You Know Where to Look (now revised, updated, and 10,000 words longer).
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