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The oldest surviving evolved recipe of cooked food of any system of cooking of any of the ancient civilizations of the world. As the Mayans ate it 9,000 years ago, as the Emporor Moctezuma served it to Hernán Cortéz. ........Feliz Navidad!

" Politics is a form of high entertainment and low comedy. It has everything: it's melodramatic, it's sinister and it has wonderful villains. "

Richard Condon had worked as a film publicist before he became a writer. In this interview he is asked if his transition to becoming a writer was easy... "Oh yes. I put everything else out of my mind and that's just what I was going to do. We had a big apartment at the old Apthorp in New York, which was a square block from West End Avenue to Broadway and it had a big courtyard in the centre and a kind of a garden. A really old-fashioned, marvellous apartment with fourteen fo

"The books get written because I work at it. Seven hours a day, seven days a week. In the evening, after dinner and watching the 9 o'clock television news with my wife, I read for whatever I'm working on until I go to bed. Every ten weeks or so, Evelyn and I take a trip somewhere for a week or two. Morocco in the winter, say, or France or Italy. I've developed such an intense motor habit that often when I'm walking down the street I find my fingers moving as though I were typ

This is an extract from a speech made by Richard Condon in November 1988 at the Boston Globe Book Fair in the Boston Public Library. " Writers weren't meant to be speakers. Particularly me. I am a practised stutterer. Therefore, this mercifully short talk will be followed by a question and answer session. I tell you this now so that you can think of questions to ask me, liberating all of us. Long ago, when I was about 18, I went into a store to buy a hat. When I had what I

Embroidered by Franklin Heller as a present for Richard Condon in the 1970's, Condon's law is turning...

Check out the article written in 1983 by Richard Condon about the mysterious disappearance of the feature film Winter Kills (it's in the...

This is a new website for all Richard Condon enthusiasts. Many of his novels are out of print and we intend to rectify that. Also, there...