In this memoir-turned-cookbook, Alice B. Toklas describes her life with partner Gertrude Stein and their famed Paris salon, which entertained the great avant-garde and literary figures of their day.
With dry wit and characteristic understatement Toklas ponders the ethics of killing a carp in her kitchen before stuffing it with chestnuts; decorating a fish to amuse Picasso at lunch; and travelling across France during the First World War in an old delivery truck, gathering local recipes along the way. She includes a friend's playful recipe for 'Haschiche Fudge', which promises 'brilliant storms of laughter and ecstatic reveries', much like her book.
- ISBN10 0241951038
- ISBN13 9780241951033
- Publish Date 7 April 2011
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 1 October 2015
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Penguin Books Ltd
- Format Paperback (US Mass Market)
- Pages 96
- Language English
- URL https://penguinrandomhouse.ca/books/isbn/9780241951033