In addition to acting, Vincent Price had a passion for food, which he celebrated along with his wife Mary in their seminal 1965 cookbook, A Treasury of Great Recipes. Out now with a new preface by daughter Victoria Price is A Treasury of Great Recipes – 50th Anniversary Edition, and we have a set of preview pages from the special release.
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Press Release: October 2015 In 1965, actor Vincent Price and his wife, Broadway and theatre costume designer Mary Grant Price co-authored the 500-page classic cookbook, A Treasury of Great Recipes.
Celebrated by Saveur Magazine as a “one of the most important culinary events of the 20th century”, this unique collection of recipes, recollections, photographs and illustrations offered readers a historical, pictorial travelogue based on the Price’s gastronomic adventures throughout the United States and Europe.
A Treasury of Great Recipes went out of print yet continued, and continues to be a cherished item gifted and shared between chefs, journalists, artists and photographers, world and armchair travelers, film fans and food lovers.
In celebration of a half-century and the 2015 holiday season, A Treasury of Great Recipes, 50th Anniversary Edition includes all original, corresponding pages inclusive of recipes, photos from acclaimed photographer and family friend William Claxton, documentary photographer and photojournalist Eliot Elisofon, Tosh Matsumoto and others, illustrations by Fritz Kredel and witty chapter intros and accompanying recipe commentaries from Vincent.
A new Retrospective Preface by Victoria Price and a new Foreword by Wolfgang Puck open the book. Recipes and restaurants from France, Italy, Holland, Scandinavia, England, Spain, Mexico and the United States are included. Select original 60’s menus from international and stateside restaurants such as Four Seasons offering “Three French Lamb Chops” for $5.95, Longfellow’s Wayside Inn Thanksgiving Day 1963 with a complete turkey dinner, appetizers and dessert for $4.00 and a trip on the Santa Fe Super Chief dining car when “white-coated waiters gentle solitude” was just what you needed “to start the day right.”
Although Vincent Price was a serious dramatic actor, he is perhaps best known for his work as a horror film star. In later years, he was the sinister voice on the title track of Michael Jackson’s Thriller, “The Inventor” in Tim Burton’s Edward Scissorhands, a voiceover appearance on Alice Cooper’s Welcome to My Nightmare, and a recurring role as “Egghead” in the Batman TV series, among hundreds of other film and TV acting roles and VO’s.
According to daughter Victoria, Vincent had an “omnivorous appetite for life.”
He studied Art History at Yale and the University of London, and along with Mary travelled the world acquiring art on behalf of the retailer, Sears to establish The Vincent Price Collection of Fine Art, offering original works from Rembrandt, Chagall, Picasso, Whistler and more that could be purchased through a Sears installment plan.
It was these worldly travels, the countries and restaurants visited and “the hands that fed” them that inspired Vincent and Mary to author A Treasury of Great Recipes.
Whether you are 25 or 65, adding to your collection or presenting as a memorable holiday gift, this book will inspire your love for the culinary and the cook, and capture a grand place in time once thought lost.
Raised on a steady diet of R.L. Stine’s Goosebumps books and Are You Afraid of the Dark?, Derek has been fascinated with fear since he first saw ForeverWare being used on an episode of Eerie, Indiana.
When he’s not writing about horror as the Senior News Reporter for Daily Dead, Derek can be found daydreaming about the Santa Carla Boardwalk from The Lost Boys or reading Stephen King and Brian Keene novels.
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