To many of the top movie and television stars, Johna Blinn is a celebrity. For almost 20 years they have welcomed her into their homes, onto sets, just about anywhere to talk about food, entertaining and lifestyles. Her column, "Celebrity Cookbook, ," is syndicated throughout the world and appears weekly in more than 140 newspapers and periodicals. A collection of hundreds of these conversations and recipes appears in Celebrity Cookbook published by Waldman Publishing Corpora-tion. Blinn is a former assistant food editor of LOOK magazine and is the author of a number of books, including The Shangri-la Cookbook. While she is busy working on her first novel and screenplay, Blinn still manages to serve as a frequent contributor of indepth interviews, profiles and entertainment features to newspapers and magazines in the U.S. and abroad. A graduate of the State University of lowa, Blinn took graduate work in home economics at the University of Wisconsin and taught home economics in Iowa, Virginia and New York. Now based in Los Angeles, she is married to a nationally known newspaper syndicate editor, writer and management consultant, and they have two teenage children. From the 70s / 80s - in good condition with some wear to cover and fading.