Besides being a horror legend and part-time rapper, Vincent Price was a food lover, and in 1965 he co-wrote a best-selling cookbook with his second wife called A Treasury of Great Recipes. It was out of print but his daughter Victoria helped get it reissued for its 50th anniversary in 2015.
“If you eat some of these recipes one too many times, I think your cholesterol level might just go ballistic. There’s a lot of butter; there’s a lot of heavy cream. But the ones that are people’s favorites are actually pretty easy to make, and they’re kind of classic,” says Price.
The cookbook includes Mad Men-era recipes, old menus, the original typeface and the original photos by jazz photographer William Claxton, Life magazine’s Eliot Elisofon, and artist Tosh Matsumoto. The images feature sumptuous spreads and waiters from legendary restaurants around the world. There’s stuffed trout from La Pyramide in Lyon, France; gazpacho Andaluz from the Sobrino de Botin in Madrid (considered the oldest restaurant in the world); frog’s legs polonaise from Sardi’s in New York.
You can grab a copy on Amazon, Bookshop, or any other book retailer of your choice.