Make Marilyn Monroe’s stuffing recipe for Thanksgiving

As one of Hollywood’s most iconic sex symbols, Marilyn Monroe — who died at age 36 in 1962 — has been the subject of numerous biographies, TV movies, screen documentaries, Andy Warhol silk screens and thousands of magazine and newspaper articles.

Is there anything that the American public doesn’t know about the former Norma Jean Mortensen?

Well, she cooked. And this week, the New York Times reported that a new book, Fragments (Farrar, Straus & Giroux; $30) includes a recipe in Monroe’s handwriting for stuffing (along with scribbles on envelopes, rare photographs, poems and intimate personal observations). The New York Times writers, cookbook-writing brothers Matt Lee and Ted Lee, actually followed the recipe and prepared the dish.