Alice B. Toklas
Alice B. Toklas
Alice B. Toklaswas an American-born member of the Parisian avant-garde of the early 20th century, and the life partner of American writer Gertrude Stein...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionEditor
Date of Birth30 April 1877
CountryUnited States of America
wonderful
This has been a most wonderful evening. Gertrude has said things tonight it will take her 10 years to understand.
gander guinea sauce turkey
What is sauce for the goose may be sauce for the gander but is not necessarily sauce for the chicken, the duck, the turkey or the guinea hen.
food want nutrition
But I don't want nutrition. I want food!
dawn aging rapids
Dawn comes slowly but dusk is rapid.
experience bargains
Experience is never at bargain price.
vegetables gardening gathering
There is nothing that is comparable to it, as satisfactory or as thrilling, as gathering the vegetables one has grown.
culmination menus should
In the menu, there should be a climax and a culmination. Come to it gently. One will suffice.
delight letters kind
Some time all kinds of letters will be published to the ineffable delight of endless readers.
mind mind-free sometimes
Illness sets the mind free sometimes to roam and surmise.
mean noon half
I have just learned a delicious French usage. On wedding invitations when they say the mass is at noon they mean one o'clock -when they say at noon precise they mean half after twelve - and when they say at very precisely noon they mean noon.
turkeys ducks may
What is sauce for the goose may be sauce for the gander, but it is not necessarily sauce for the chicken, the duck, the turkey or the Guinea hen.