sara
Crab On The Rampage
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Post by sara on May 7, 2012 13:39:57 GMT
Travel round the world with Vincent Price – using your cooker instead of a jet plane... Here he invites you to share with him the experiences of international cuisine – such delicacies as the Tajine from Morocco, the American Ice Box cake, or the Fish Fillets Noord Zee... And every recipe can be made easily with ingredients that are available from your local shops or supermarket. So begin cooking...with VINCENT PRICE... Illustrated in colour and black and white. Corgi edition published 1971.
Anyone seen this when it was on TV? The recipes are compiled by Charmian Watford and Bob Murray, based on the Thames Television series. According to Vincent Price in his introduction, they took a lot of trouble to devise a cookery series of exotic recipes based on ingredients that could be bought in any local UK supermarket – (which probably wasn’t as easy then as it is now).
Anyway, there's a whole section devoted to potato recipes (which is useful since I've come into some free potatoes recently) so I’m hoping to try a few of these out over the next week or two.
But my favourite looking recipe so far is the Melon monster..
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Post by DemonSpawn on May 7, 2012 16:28:39 GMT
Oooo, do want.
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Post by valdemar on May 11, 2012 16:47:17 GMT
Yes, I remember seeing this on TV. When I tell people that Vincent Price used to present a cookery show, no-one ever believes me. Here's the proof. Thankyou for providing the evidence to back me up. Vincent Price is my all-time favourite filmstar, but film and theatre acting were only the tip of the iceberg - the man was a bit of a polymath, being a wine expert, a historian and an expert on the theatre. I would have liked to meet him, because it was widely understood that he was a very nice person. It's odd about horror film stars [the greats, at least] that, to a man, they were all decent human beings. Lon Chaney, Peter Lorre, Bela Lugosi, Boris Karloff, Vincent Price, Peter Cushing, Christopher Lee. Some had problems in later life, but generally regarded as nice blokes.
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Post by valdemar on May 11, 2012 18:58:28 GMT
... But I sincerely hope there isn't a recipe for 'Poodles en Croute'...
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sara
Crab On The Rampage
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Post by sara on Jun 10, 2012 19:15:23 GMT
Hi Valdemar, in case any more proof was needed, here’s a snapshot of him filming the show- I’ve since tried out one of the recipes, though not a potato one. Instead I opted for the Beef Stroganoff with Pimento Rice (except that Danny is vegetarian so I had to use tofu and I couldn’t find any Pimento in my local supermarket). And the results? Well, my effort was a lot less photogenic looking than the one they have pictured in the book, but tasted great nonetheless!
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Post by valdemar on Jun 11, 2012 1:23:37 GMT
Thank you very much, Sara, a copy of that shot is now on my 'phone to wave at the nay sayers. .
PS. This was a time when, if you wanted olive oil, you'd have to go to Boots the chemists to get a bottle, labelled: 'OLIVE OIL, BP'. In the UK, olive oil was used pretty much for loosening earwax - ugh [or as my Welsh nan would say: 'Ach Y Fi!']
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Post by helrunar on Jun 5, 2016 14:29:27 GMT
Vincent Price did a series of cooking at home lessons on cassette (or maybe originally, LP? I have no idea just when these were originally done). There was a web archive of a great deal of material that he did for radio and other audio formats a few years back but it was abruptly shut down, I imagine through the intervention of lawyers acting on behalf of his estate. It was unfortunate because there was a lot on there that I know will never see any kind of commercial release, including somebody's audience recording of his one man show as Oscar Wilde (which I saw in Baltimore around 1977). I think the site was set up so one was not able to download the material though no doubt a gifted hacker could easily have found a workaround. One of the tapes was artfully "edited" by some clever minx on the internet and this was the result: www.youtube.com/watch?v=4bhIKhGOjc4&index=3&list=PLq-xyQ2jw-eHKdLcpk9COnxt22KHIUi4QThis is part of a playlist of five excerpts from the cooking recordings by Vincent. H.
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