The Alice B. Toklas Cookbook
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Slipcase: Good
Pages: Good
Long before the celebrity memoir was fashionable, Alice B. Toklas — secretary, companion, and lifelong partner to Gertrude Stein — conjured a world of bohemian salons, wartime kitchens, and sun-drenched French countryside into a cookbook unlike any other. First published in 1954, The Alice B. Toklas Cookbook is far more than a collection of recipes; it is a vivid chronicle of expatriate life in Paris during the first half of the twentieth century, weaving together culinary instruction with rich anecdote, wit, and memoir. Through dishes contributed by friends including Picasso, Matisse, and Hemingway, Toklas presents an intimate portrait of the modernist avant-garde, rendered in a voice at once dry, precise, and disarmingly charming. This Folio Society edition, graced with elegant drawings by Natacha Ledwidge and introduced by Diana Souhami, restores the work to its rightful place as a landmark of culinary and literary culture. Toklas writes with the authority of a woman who fed genius and, in doing so, quietly shaped it — her prose balancing domestic detail against the grand sweep of a remarkable life. Celebrated as much for its irreverent humour as for its historical significance, the book occupies a singular position at the crossroads of gastronomy, biography, and modernist literature. For any reader who has ever wondered what Gertrude Stein ate for dinner, the answer — and so much more — awaits.
Author: Alice B. Toklas
Format: Hardback
Published: 1993, The Folio Society
Genre: Cookery
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Slipcase: Good
Pages: Good
Long before the celebrity memoir was fashionable, Alice B. Toklas — secretary, companion, and lifelong partner to Gertrude Stein — conjured a world of bohemian salons, wartime kitchens, and sun-drenched French countryside into a cookbook unlike any other. First published in 1954, The Alice B. Toklas Cookbook is far more than a collection of recipes; it is a vivid chronicle of expatriate life in Paris during the first half of the twentieth century, weaving together culinary instruction with rich anecdote, wit, and memoir. Through dishes contributed by friends including Picasso, Matisse, and Hemingway, Toklas presents an intimate portrait of the modernist avant-garde, rendered in a voice at once dry, precise, and disarmingly charming. This Folio Society edition, graced with elegant drawings by Natacha Ledwidge and introduced by Diana Souhami, restores the work to its rightful place as a landmark of culinary and literary culture. Toklas writes with the authority of a woman who fed genius and, in doing so, quietly shaped it — her prose balancing domestic detail against the grand sweep of a remarkable life. Celebrated as much for its irreverent humour as for its historical significance, the book occupies a singular position at the crossroads of gastronomy, biography, and modernist literature. For any reader who has ever wondered what Gertrude Stein ate for dinner, the answer — and so much more — awaits.