Product Description: 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...read more

Product Description: “A book of character, fine food and tasty human observation."  —The New YorkerLong 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...read more

A collection of the love notes Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas wrote to each other during the time they were together paints an intimate picture of the love these two woman shared.

Presents a collection of anecdotes and recipes from meals shared in Paris with such friends as Ernest Hemingway, Pablo Picasso, and Thornton Wilder

Product Description: Two hundred recipes by a renowned intellectual and epicure, from her Paris kitchen.

The author describes her childhood, education, and thirty-nine year relationship with Gertrude Stein and shares her impressions of famous writers and painters of the twenties

Letters to Steward from the famous expatriate pair, dating from the 1930s through 1966, reflect a true friendship among the correspondents, the striking personalities of Stein and Toklas, and their life in Paris

Alice B. Toklas' correspondence during the last twenty years of her life provides insight into her friendships and associations as well as the art and literary circles of the era