Hobbies: Spending time with his children, friends and pets. Cartoons, playing video games, reading, listening to music, arts, watching movies, writing sweet notes to his fans on bedding and throw them out the window etc.

Mike's favorite song: Afternoon of a Faun by Claude Debussy

Mike's own favorite songs: Earth Song, Heal The World, Speechless, The Lost Children & You Are My Life

Mike's favorite musicvideos: Thriller, Smooth Criminal & Ghosts

Mike's favorite song to perform: Billie Jean & Heal The World

Mike's music-idols/heros: Barbara Streisand, The Bee Gees, Whitney Houston, Debussy, Tchaikovsky, Prokofiev, James Brown, Jackie Wilson, Sammy Davies Jr., Charlie Chaplin, Fred Astaire

Mike's favorite book: Peter Pan

Mike's favorite food: Fruits, vegetables, Mexican, sushi

Mike's favorite drink: Fruit Juices, Gatorade

Mike's favorite number: 7

Everybody has favourite things, Michael jackson had his share of favourite things as well. Curious ? Here is a list

Best Friend: Elizabeth Taylor

Idols: Charlie Chaplin, Fred Astaire, Gene Kelley, Berry Gordy, Quincy Jones, Three Stooges, Walt Disney,James Brown, Jackie Wilson

Favorite Accessory: Black Fedora

Favorite Actor/Actress: Shirley Temple, Elizabeth Taylor, Katherine Hepburn, Morgan Freeman, Marlon Brando

Favorite Artists: Michaelangelo, Leonardo Da Vinci

Favourite Board Game: Monopoly

Favorite Books: ‘Peter Pan’ by James Matthew Barrie, ‘Jonathan Livingstone Seagull’ by Richard Bach, ‘The Old Man And The Sea’ by Ernest Hemingway

Favorite Classical Composers: Claude Debussy (’Afternoon of the Fawn’), Pjotr Iljitsch Tschaikowsky, Sergei Sergejewitsch Prokofjew

Favorite Colors: Red, black

Favorite Disney Characters: Mickey Mouse, Peter Pan, Pinocchio

Favorite Drink: mineral water (e.g. Evian, Perrier), fruit juice (orange), vegetable juice (carrot), Gatorade (during concerts)

Favorite Food: Mexican, exotic, spicy & vegetarian food, Sushi, pizza, chicken, fish, fresh fruits, popcorn, vanilla ice with cookie pieces, sunflower seeds, glazed doughnuts, frosted flakes with milk, M&Ms

Favorite Movies: ‘Peter Pan’, ‘E.T.’, ‘Star Wars’

Favorite Singers: James Brown, Jackie Wilson, Smokey Robinson, Sammy Davis Jr., The Temptations, Diana Ross

Favorite Songs When He Was A Child: ‘Tobacco Road’, ‘You Are My Sunshine’, ‘Cloud Nine’ by The Temptations

Favorite TV Shows: Flip Wilson Show, Brady Bunch, Road Runner Show, The Simpsons

Cooking for Kings, Princes & Michael Jackson & A Chocolate Implosion

http://www.notquitenigella.com/2010/02/13/cooking-for-kings-princes-michael-jackson-a-chocolate-implosion/

Carte de bucate din 1993! Introducere-de Michael Jackson ! :)

http://www.notquitenigella.com/2010/02/13/cooking-for-kings-princes-michael-jackson-a-chocolate-implosion/

In 1993, Michael wrote the introduction to a cookbook for families published by Neiman Marcus, Pigtails and Frog Legs. The book was illustrated by Warner Bros. Cartoon artist Chuck Jones. Jones’ portrayal of Michael.

Quote:

To a child, food is something special. It isn’t just a delicious taste or the vitamins that build a healthy body. Food is love and caring, security and hope — all the things that a food family can provide. Remember when you were little and your mother made a pie for you? When she cut a slice and put it on your plate, she was giving you a bit of herself, in the form of her love. She made your hunger go away, and when you were full and satisfied, everything seemed all right. Because that satisfied feeling was in the pie, you were nourished from a deep level. Food is something we all need physically, but so is love, the deeper nourishment, that turns into who we are.

Think about how necessary it is to nourish a child with a bit of yourself when you use this book. It is full of delicious things. Every recipe has an extra ingredient of caring, because the people who wrote them were thinking of the children. They were specially thinking of those who aren’t able to take nourishment for granted because they are poor, sick or disabled. These are the children who need food to heal. The theme of ‘Heal the World’, which has been close to my heart, is the central theme of this book, also. Here are recipes for the spirit. Please make them with that in mind. Your child is growing spirit that can be knit strong with love. When you break an egg and measure a cup of flour, you are magically mixing the gift of life. The food’s proteins and minerals will turn into bones and muscles, but your feeling as you cook will turn directly into a soul.

It makes me happy to think that the needs of children’s spirits are at last becoming important in this world. Children have no power to end wars directly or to mend age-old differences.

All they can do is be themselves, to shine with gratitude and joy when love is turned their way. Yet isn’t that ultimately the greatest power? In the eyes of a child you become the source of joy, which lifts you into the special category of caregiver and life-provider. You may think that your apple pie has only sugar and spice in it. A child is wiser — with the first bite, he knows that this special dish is the essence of your love.

Enjoy!

— Michael Jackson, 1993