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TIL: Vincent Price, the legendary Hollywood film icon, and his wife Mary, were such food connoisseurs, that in 1965 they co-wrote a best selling cookbook titled "A Treasury Of Great Recipes". His daughter Victoria stated, "He had an omnivorous appetite for life and for food."

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