The Alice B. Toklas Cook Book

Toklas, Alice B.

ISBN 10: 0061995363 / ISBN 13: 9780061995361

Published by Harper Perennial, 2010

About this Item

This copy has clearly been enjoyedâ expect noticeable shelf wear and some minor creases to the cover. Binding is strong, and all pages are legible. May contain previous library markings or stamps.

Seller Inventory # DBV.0061995363.A

Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Alice B. Toklas Cook Book
• Publisher: Harper Perennial
• Publication Date: 2010
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0061995363
• ISBN 13: 9780061995361
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: acceptable

About this title

Synopsis

“A book of character, fine food and tasty human observation."  —The New Yorker

Long before Julia Child discovered French cooking, Alice B. Toklas was sampling local dishes, collecting recipes, and cooking for the writers, artists, and expats who lived in Paris between the wars. Hemingway, Fitzgerald, Wilder, Matisse, and Picasso shared meals at the home she kept with Gertrude Stein, who famously memorialized her in The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas.

The Alice B. Toklas Cook Book, however, is her true memoir: a collection of traditional French recipes that predates Child's Mastering the Art of French Cooking. Toklas supplies familiar recipes such as coq au vin, bouillabaisse, and boeuf bourguignon, along with what is perhaps the earliest instructions for haschich fudge (“which anyone could whip up on a rainy day"), and she entertains with fascinating memories of Paris—Toklas' home for most of her life—and of rural France, Spain, and America.

About the Author

Alice B. Toklas was Gertrude Stein's "secretary-companion." For many years they lived together in France, Toklas cooking while Stein was writing. She is memorialized in Stein's most famous book, The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas.