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Originally Posted by Susan Foreman

This looks like a bit of an oddity!

'Cooking Price-Wise' (1971) - Blu-ray pre-order available from the BFI Shop direct - UK$16:99

Release date: November 25

"The never-before released 6-part cookery show from 1971, presented by the incomparable actor and chef Vincent Price. Recipes include Moroccan tajine, the American Ice Box Cake and Fish Fillets Noord Zee!

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 souffle, 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!

BFI Flipside is dedicated to rediscovering the margins of British and Irish film, reclaiming a space for forgotten movies and filmmakers who would otherwise be in danger of disappearing from our screens forever. It is a home for cinematic oddities, offering everything from exploitation documentaries to B-movies, countercultural curios and obscure classics. If it's weird, and forgotten, then it's Flipside."

Special features:

• Standard definition presented on Blu-ray
• Victoria Price on Cooking Price-Wise (2024): Vincent Price's daughter, writer and inspirational speaker Victoria Price, reflects upon her father's love of the finer things in life
• Monster 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 caper
• A Treasury of Great Recipes (2024): Jenny Hammerton celebrates Vincent Price's writing on cookery and his love of all things edible
• Cooking Vincent Price's Goulash (2013, 7 mins): Nathalie Morris and film archivist Jenny Hammerton demonstrate how to make a deliciously sinister goulash courtesy of the acting legend
• The Good Housewife "In Her Kitchen" (1949, 9 mins): tricks and tips on food preparation - 1940s-style - in this imaginative Central Office of Information short
• Other extras tbc
• Optional English descriptive subtitles
• **LIMITED EDITION** Includes O-card and booklet featuring new writing by Victoria Price, Peter Fuller, Vic Pratt and Jenny Hammerton

Have to say this is a bit of a surprise - not only getting a release at all, but the fact that this is Flipside #50, I was expecting something a bit special ( dunno what though! ).
I will buy it to keep my Flipside collection complete, but I can?t see it being a day one purchase somehow.