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Cooking Price-Wise (blu-ray) (Flipside #50)
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Lensman
09-08-2025Anyone who values the work of Vincent Price will appreciate this masterpiece of horror whereby Mr Price plays a seemingly delightful chef/cook making simple dishes for his unsuspecting guests. No-one's getting out alive! Every recipe is submerged in butter, double cream, cheese and any other life threatening ingredient that the maestro of doom can employ!Joking apart this is superb. A 1971 cookery show with the utterly wonderful Vincent Price and based on his best selling book of that time. I sincerely recommend the included documentary in the extras where Vincent's equally delightful daughter explains how the series came to be made and tells some great anecdotes about her father.You don't need to be keen on cooking to enjoy this: it's just great, entertaining fun. Highly recommended.
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K. W. Wardle
09-08-2025If you love Vincent Price, or food this is a must have disc and is quite simply a delightful time capsule! Recommended!
Technical Specifications
Cooking Price-Wise (Blu-ray) (Flipside #50) Director: Bob Murray BFI Flipside presents Cooking Price-Wise…You don’t need to be a master chef to join cinema’s master of terror Vincent Price in the kitchen for this brilliantly bizarre crash-course in very-1970s cookery! Early in that delicious decade, while he was on a sojourn in England, the legendary screen-star and fine-dining aficionado took an unlikely break from the macabre movies to rustle up this long-sought-after labour-of-love six part television series, encouraging bored British housewives to serve up something different. From melon monsters to crocodile cucumbers, not forgetting the perfect soufflé, the marvellous Mr Price is your genial and garrulous host amid the paisley-patterned saucepans, as he demonstrates favourites recipes from around the world – in this fantastic full-fat celebrity cookery show unlike any other!Special Features Presented on Blu-ray in both HD and SD from a standard definition sourceUntil We Eat Again (2024, 18 mins): Vincent Price’s daughter, writer and inspirational speaker Victoria Price, reflects upon her father’s love of the finer things in lifeMonster Munch(2024): Queen of the Kitchen Jenny Hammerton - of silverscreensuppers.com - demonstrates how you too can prepare a classic Vincent Price dish in this all-new kitchen caperKitch(en)finder General (2024): Jenny Hammerton celebrates Vincent Price’s writing on cookery and his love of all things edibleAudio commentaries on selected episodes: Episode 1: Potatoes (Vic Pratt and William Fowler), Episode 3: Bacon (Lisa Kerrigan and Dr Josephine Botting), and Episode 4: Cheese (Jenny Hammerton and Peter Fuller)A selection of food related films made by the Central Office of Information (1940-1949, 30 mins total): Oatmeal Porridge, Potatoes, When the Pie was Opened, How to Cook Cabbage and The “Good Housewife” in Her KitchenTea Making Tips (1941, 10 mins): take the strain out of brewing up a perfect cuppa with this handy wartime instructional filmCentenary Express (1980, 7 mins): a gastronomic journey from Yorkshire to London on board a special train made up of vintage restaurant cars, and hauled by steamOptional English descriptive subtitles**LIMITED EDITION** Includes O-card and booklet featuring new writing by Victoria Price, Peter Fuller, Vic Pratt and Jenny Hammerton
