Nearly all of "The Colonel's Secret Recipes" were originally collected by Colonel Edwin M. Chance from a variety of sources from the turn of the 20th century to the mid-1940s while a few were recently added by Andrew C. Schenkel. Attributed to their original creators or restaurants which made them their signature, each recipe offers a glimpse into the gastronomy of the casinos and nightclubs of pre-Castro Havana, the yacht clubs from the racy Jazz Age Caribbean to the more staid Philadelphia society of the period. Arranged in a party-theme, The Colonel's Secret Recipes contains exotic recipes for entertaining the most discriminating guests.