Cooking Price-Wise

[MichaelB]

For those who are going "who?" at the above, this refers to actor and gourmet cook Vincent Price's six-part 1971 TV series Cooking Price-Wise, which is the fiftieth BFI Flipside entry.

[What A Disgrace]

Odd choice for Flipside, but a welcome one. And certainly not something that anybody would have guessed based on the clue.

[Cash Flagg]

I had no idea he could cook!

#LetVincecook

[domino harvey]

While looking this up, I learned that podcasts are listed on IMDB for some reason

[midnitedave]

Cooking Price-Wise is the release of the year for me. My wife and I have owned the book for years, yet the show itself has always been hard to come by. Uncle Vinnie fans rejoice!

[MichaelB]

Full specs announced:

BFI Flipside presents release No. 050
COOKING PRICE-WISE
Vincent Price’s legendary TV cookery show

Released on BFI Blu-ray on 25 November 2024

You don’t need to be a master chef to join cinema’s master of terror, Vincent Price, in the kitchen for COOKING PRICE-WISE, a brilliantly bizarre crash course in very 1970s cookery! Never previously released on any format, it comes to Blu-ray courtesy of BFI Flipside on 25 November, making it the perfect Christmas gift for all fans. Many extras include a new interview with daughter Victoria Price, new audio commentaries, Silver Screen Suppers’ Jenny Hammerton preparing classic Price dishes and more.

During the early years of that delicious decade that was the 1970s, while Vincent Price was on a sojourn in England, the iconic screen star and fine-dining aficionado took an unlikely break from macabre movies to rustle up this six-part television series, a labour of love designed to get bored British housewives serving up something a little 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 favourite recipes from around the world – in a fantastic, long-sought-after full-fat celebrity cookery show unlike any other.

Special features
• Presented on Blu-ray in both High Definition and Standard Definition
• Until We Eat Again (2024, 18 mins): Vincent Price’s daughter, the writer and inspirational speaker Victoria Price, reflects upon her father’s love of the finer things in life
• Audio commentaries on selected episodes: Episode 1: Potatoes (Vic Pratt and William Fowler), Episode 3: Bacon (Lisa Kerrigan and Dr Josephine Botting), Episode 4: Cheese (Jenny Hammerton and Peter Fuller)
• Monster Munch (2024, 25 mins): the Queen of the Kitchen, Jenny Hammerton of Silver Screen Suppers, demonstrates how you too can prepare classic Vincent Price dishes in this all-new kitchen caper
• Kitchenfinder General (2024, 21 mins): Jenny Hammerton celebrates Vincent Price’s writing on cookery and his love of all things edible
• 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 a Cabbage and The Good Housewife ‘In Her Kitchen’
• Tea Making Tips (1941, 10 mins): take the strain out of brewing up a perfect cuppa with this handy wartime instructional film
• Centenary Express (1980, 7 mins): a gastronomic journey from Yorkshire to London on board a special train formed of vintage restaurant cars and hauled by a steam locomotive
• ***First pressing only*** Illustrated booklet with new writing by Victoria Price, Peter Fuller, Jenny Hammerton and Vic Pratt; notes on the special features and credits

Product details
RRP: £19.99 / Cat. no. BFIB1529 / E
UK / 1971 / colour / 143 mins / English language with optional descriptive subtitles / original aspect ratio 1.33:1 // BD50: 1080i, 25fps, LPCM 2.0 mono audio (48kHz/24-bit)

[Orlac]

I've asked my sister for this for Christmas

[swo17]

The COI films included here mostly run 7-8 minutes but "How to Cook a Cabbage" ends abruptly midsentence after exactly 1 minute. Is this an authoring error? I did not learn how to cook the cabbage.

EDIT: Never mind, the booklet explains that the film is incomplete

[zedz]

And that’s why swo’s family had to go without Christmas dinner this year.

[MichaelB]

Cabbage cooking is such a specialist skill that the COI had to retrospectively censor all copies, because they'd inadvertently revealed too much.

[swo17]

Guy in the movie wasted half the minute jokingly trying to fit the cabbage into a small measuring cup. He was just starting to take things seriously when