Red Classics Great Food Murder In The Kitchen

by Alice B Toklas

2020-11-25 12:27:00

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 To... Read more
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. Less

Book Details

File size7.15 X 4.4 X 0.35 in
Print pages112
PublisherPenguin Uk
Publication date May 24, 2011
LanguageEnglish
ISBN9780241951033

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