The Alice B.Toklas Cookbook
by Alice B. Toklas
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When Alice B. Toklas was asked to write a memoir, she initially refused. Instead, she wrote The Alice B. Toklas Cook Book, a sharply written, deliciously rich cookbook memorializing meals and recipes shared by Hemingway, Fitzgerald, Wilder, Matisse, and Picasso. And of course by Alice and Gertrude themselves.Tags
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I love this cookbook - what other book would have a chapter headed 'Murder in the Kitchen'? There are some beautiful recipes here, like the one for 'bird's-nest pudding', "a pudding we should not neglect", and 'virgin sauce', made of butter, lemon juice and a tablespoon of whipped cream, which Alice recommends is served with cold fish, and "is something apart".
This is a middling cookbook but a wonderful BOOK. So I split the difference with the star-rating.
This is a middling cookbook but a wonderful BOOK. So I split the difference with the star-rating.
I appreciate the comments on French food ways as much as the insight into the domestic arrangements, life under the Occupation, and later.
I loved this book. The history, the food, the stories.
Alice's mostly French recipes, for American and British readers ! Tales associated with her meals ... who she served it to, etc. Written 1954.. Hemingway, Gertrude Stein, Thornton Wilder... Picasso drawing on cover.
not practically useful, but very funny
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Author Information
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Alice B. Toklas was Gertrude Stein's partner and "secretary-companion." They lived together for many years in France, Toklas cooking while Stein was writing. Alice is memorialized in Stein's most famous book, The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas.
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Common Knowledge
- Canonical title
- The Alice B.Toklas Cookbook
- Original publication date
- 1954
- People/Characters
- Alice B. Toklas; Gertrude Stein
- Important places
- Paris, France
Classifications
- Genres
- Food & Cooking, Nonfiction, Biography & Memoir, General Nonfiction
- DDC/MDS
- 641.5944 — Applied Science & Technology Home economics & family management Food, Cooking & Recipes / Meals, Picnics Cooking; cookbooks Ethnic Cookbooks Europe France
- LCC
- TX719 .T6 — Technology Home economics Home economics Cooking
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Statistics
- Members
- 802
- Popularity
- 34,386
- Reviews
- 13
- Rating
- (3.90)
- Languages
- 12 — Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, German, Italian, Norwegian (Bokmål), Polish, Russian, Spanish, Swedish
- Media
- Paper, Audiobook, Ebook
- ISBNs
- 36
- ASINs
- 24
