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The Alice B. Toklas Cook Book

by Alice B. Toklas with a Foreword by M. F. K. Fisher

 

“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.

 

Publisher: Harper Perennial

Publication Date: August 10, 2010

Format: Paperback

Pages: 320

Dimensions: 5.31 x 8in

ISBN: 978-0061995361

The Alice B. Toklas Cook Book

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