Evp - Eating Vincent Price

Sign in Subscribe

Evp

A collection of 11 posts

Vintage Menus are Valuable History

Vintage Menus are Valuable History

I was not always a huge fan of menus. Mostly, because the menus I used were hung over the grill at whatever greasy spoon dive where I was ordering my repast. Even the nicer places I visited had their menus slipped into heavy plastic binders the waitress would snatch from

eating vincent price in england

A Treasury of Great Recipes

England Put a Powerful Spell on Vincent Price

In 1935, Vincent Price was 24. He’d recently graduated Yale then moved to England to pursue a degree in fine arts. But Price was drawn to acting. He joined Orson Welles’ Mercury Theater and appeared in a production of Victoria Regina in the role of Prince Albert for which

3 Reasons to Love French Potage (Bean Soup)

A Treasury of Great Recipes

3 Reasons to Love French Potage (Bean Soup)

It’s just bean soup. But it is so much more than that. Chef Pierre Descreux’s childhood is buried in the depths of this dish. I can taste it. I can see him as a child sitting at the kitchen table while his mother or his grandmother simmers this

Tour d'Argent: Decadent and Luxurious

Tour d'Argent: Decadent and Luxurious

Tour d’Argent (The Silver Tower) is the oldest restaurant in Paris. It may be the oldest restaurant in the world, though there are many contenders for that position. It definitely beats Procope by a century or more. And they may be wrong anyway. In 1582, when the Tour d’

cranberry bread eating vincent price

American cuisine

This Cranberry Bread is Amazing

Cranberry sauce is the emblem and the badge of Thanksgiving dinner. Without the sauce, it isn’t T-day, it’s just another turkey dinner on a Thursday. But in the Treasury of Great Recipes, there isn’t a single instance of cranberry sauce instructions. It does appear on the menu

Haricots Verts à la Lyonnaise

Haricots Verts à la Lyonnaise

Thanksgiving dinner means green beans on the table. Some homes serve green beans with bread crumbs sprinkled on top and some serve them Almandine both of which are horrible and no. Don’t. Green beans are just fine all by themselves. They don’t need your help. Just cook them

Thanksgiving Candied Sweet Potatoes Alternative

Thanksgiving Candied Sweet Potatoes Alternative

The Treasury is a generous cornucopia of recipes. I poured over every page looking for a candied sweet potatoes recipe. I scoured the index. Then I remembered yams are a Pacific island food. There’s a whole section on Hawaii and I bet something there might work. Victory. On page

Roast Thanksgiving Turkey Wayside Inn

Roast Thanksgiving Turkey Wayside Inn

Thanksgiving is barreling through the calendar toward us and if you’re anything like the rest of the home cooks in America you are thinking about Thanksgiving turkey. And if you are anything like the 50 bajillion first-time turkey cooks, you are terrified you’ll foul up your fowl. Fortunately,

Have an Amazing Vincent Price Thanksgiving

Have an Amazing Vincent Price Thanksgiving

Turkey day is just around the corner so I’ve done some digging and I’m skipping ahead in class to find the perfect holiday dishes from the Treasury of Great Recipes. This is your portal page to the recipes, which are tied together as a series so it’ll

A Treasury of Great Recipes

Dodine de Canard

[su_heading]Once again Price sends me into a flailing tizzy over details which I find maddening.[/su_heading] First, Price mentions in the epistolary paragraph that Escoffier cooked this dish for Sarah Bernhardt but doesn’t say anything else, which makes me crazy because Escoffier and Bernhardt were kind

hotel de la poste

A Treasury of Great Recipes

Guirlande de Suprêmes en Gelée

In the introduction for this dish, Price tells us at the Hostellerie de la Poste they make it with quail, and garnish the dish with their heads, which Price sort of brushes off and claims he’d “. . . sooner have it without the heads.” Oh come on—you were in House