The Alice B. Toklas Cookbook
Recipes threaded through a life with Gertrude Stein in Paris, including the hashish fudge that made it notorious.
Toklas lived with Gertrude Stein for nearly forty years and cooked for the painters and writers who came through their apartment. The recipes are interleaved with memoir, taking in Picasso’s dietary rules, the two world wars and the search for food in occupied France, and the book is read as often for the company as for the cooking.
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Ruth Reichl
It doesn’t go into great detail, but it does also convey some sense of Alice Toklas’s life with Gertrude Stein, hanging out in Paris with famous artists. For example, she has ‘‘Bass for Picasso” in there as one of her recipes. He had some specific dietary requirements I think.
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