It’s Vincent Price’s birthday today. Let’s celebrate with a round up of some of the dishes cooked for the forthcoming Vincent Price cookbook by our wonderful volunteers. My co-writer Peter has published a sneaky peek of the proposed book cover (revealing the NEW TITLE) and some of the inside pages here – do check it...
Ah, I do love Tallulah but I may have to take another look at her recipe for Coconut Jumbles… Her veal recipe was very vague and of course it was delicious but that’s because the only other ingredients are butter and sour cream. Hmm. I want to keep her in the book because she is...
“Nobody can be exactly me. Sometimes even I have trouble doing it.” Got a fab freelance commission this week – selecting fashion films of the 1940s and writing about them. Film archiving doesn’t get much better than that! In discussion over a burger and fries my commisioners concluded that although folks have a strong idea...
“…all my life I’ve been terrible at remembering people’s names. Once I introduced a friend of mine as ‘Martini’. Her name was actually ‘Olive’.” Tallulah’s excuse for calling everyone “dahling” rings a bell with me. I’m getting terrible at remembering names. Which puts me in mind of my dad once saying, “that whatsisname is really...
“If I had to live my life again, I’d make the same mistakes, only sooner.” Last night saw extreme Silver Screen Supperage in action. Dinner al fresco which began with Tallulah’s favourite tipple the French 75. Followed by Adolph Menjou’s Spiced Venetian Cheese hors d’oevres, Errol Flynn’s Baked Fish Havanaise and Joan Blondell’s Peach and...
“They used to photograph Shirley Temple through gauze. They should photograph me through linoleum.” So hard to choose a quote for Talullah – there are so many fabulous ones! What exactly is she doing in this picture I’d like to know? The person who comes up with the best guess will win a batch of...
