Elizabeth Taylor seemed larger-than-life on screen, and according to Neil Zevnik, her personal chef for nearly a decade in the ‘90s, she also threw larger-than-life parties at home.

“We always did an enormous single table,” Zevnik tells TODAY.com of her Thanksgiving dinners, attended by 40-plus guests at her ranch-style home in Bel Air, California. Formerly an actor, he worked as Taylor’s chef from 1991 until 1999.

Thanksgiving place setting at Elizabeth Taylor's home. Courtesy Neil Zevnik

Zevnik says, while he would typically only cook for her, holidays were a special case. As he prepared the feast, movers would remove all her furniture from her living and trophy rooms to make space for a square of banquet tables, which he says he also decorated.

“I would literally take off my shoes

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