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Vincent and Mary Price began collecting copper on a long trip to France in 1949. Mary was the costume designer for a movie called The Adventures of Captain Fabian , starring Errol Flynn, Vincent, Micheline Presle, and Agnes Moorehead, and so the couple went to Paris before shooting to work with the Paris costumiers. When Errol Flynn was delayed, the couple had to stay in Paris an extra month on salary!! They used their time and money to buy art and lots of copper cookware being sold at ridiculously affordable post-war prices. The copper purchased on that trip became the basis of their famous collection, as seen in their cookbook, A Treasury of Great Recipes. This small grouping of copper molds contains two small vegetable molds--a tiny eggplant and a little pea pod! They are wonderful. It also contains a shell mold made by the famous French pastry mold maker Preau, and is stamped Depose Preau. These vintage molds measure: * Peapod 4" x 1" x 1/2" * Eggplant 3 3/4" x 2" x 1 1/4" * Shells 7" x 7" About A Treasury of Great Recipes: CLASSIC COOKBOOKS A Treasury of Great Recipes by Mary and Vincent Price If you judge a book solely by its cover, one of the most used cookbooks in my library might look too outrageous for your kitchen. A Treasury of Great Recipes, by Mary and Vincent Price, is a plush volume, all embossed copper and gilt leattte like a photo album. The book does, in fact, have loads of pictures, but most are of food or lavish restaurant interiors, with just a smattering of its famous Hollywood authors. Published in 1965 and given to me two years later, Treasury is a compilation of the Price's favorite dishes from their travels around the world. An epicurean grand tour, you might say, capturing that diaphanous illusion of an early 1960's world w turbulence was now in evidence. The glamour of the book does not make it frivolous, though; recipes were well tested by Anne Seranne (long an editor at Gourmet) and range from plebian cheese-stuffed ball-park hotdogs to homemade butter, churned in the blender. Far more exotic for the era was coconut milk and cream from scratch, used in a chicken curry. Among my favorites is the Virginia Museum's game hens in orange sauce, so elegant to a 20-year-old college student who threw dinner parties in Santa Fe, so just-plain-small for the mind-altered guests who quickly devoured them. Paella "Good Friend" from Madrid's Palace Hotel is really just a good, soupy Spanish chicken and rice fancied up with green olives and blanched almonds; the recipe has anchored casual dinner parties of mine for forty years. A final love, the boccone dolce from Sardi's, consisting of meringue, whipped cream, strawberries and chocolate, is every bit a sweet mouthful. It graced my dinner table as recently as Easter and will appear again the moment local berries come into the farmer's market. Such a very sweet, very innocent-looking icebox cake, courtesy of a man famous for very scary movies. You can dig up a copy of your own at Amazon or Ebay. Posted at 03:51 PM in All Cooking Posts, All Food Posts, Classic Cookbooks, Literature & Cookbooks, Zanne Stewart | Permalink Comments What a great pleasure to be reminded of this book! My grandmother had a copy; As a child I used to lay on the carpet in her living room, reading Vincent's descriptions of the world's great restaurants, meals and dishes. Already in love with food and cooking (courtesy of my grandmother and father), opening that book was an instant trip to a culinary fantasy world. My gradmother told me when she passed away the book would be mine, and so it is to this day. I too, have made boccone dolce and many other recipes from its pages. Thanks for a great read. Posted by: bkirkland | July 25, 2007 at 06:43 PM 
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