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Extravagant potato
What a sensational book. Alice B. Toklas was Gertrude Stein's main squeeze and hilarious. Although this book doesn't have the famous hashish recipe that appeared in the `Alice B. Toklas cookbook' from 1954 it does have some great recipes including `extravagant potato' that is simply potato and a POUND of butter. I hope your heart can take it. Heavily...
Published on July 10, 2009 by Jason Hoy
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Aromas and Flavors of the Past and Present
This collection of recipes is less anecdotal than 'The Alice B. Toklas Cookbook' however the notes that accompany each recipe are very useful. It is a relief to consult recipes that are elegantly simple compared to the glossy and overcomplicated creations so often described in fashionable cookbooks.
Published on January 7, 2008 by hobo
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Aromas and Flavors of the Past and Present,
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This review is from: Aromas and Flavors of the Past and Present (Cook's Classic Library) (Paperback)
This collection of recipes is less anecdotal than 'The Alice B. Toklas Cookbook' however the notes that accompany each recipe are very useful. It is a relief to consult recipes that are elegantly simple compared to the glossy and overcomplicated creations so often described in fashionable cookbooks.
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Extravagant potato,
By Alice B. Toklas was Gertrude Stein's main squeeze and hilarious. Although this book doesn't have the famous hashish recipe that appeared in the `Alice B. Toklas cookbook' from 1954 it does have some great recipes including `extravagant potato' that is simply potato and a POUND of butter. I hope your heart can take it. Heavily annotated by Poppy Cannon (of which Alice B. Toklas did not approve) with even funnier references as to how to behave around men, at cocktail parties and how to treat the hired help it becomes more politically incorrect as the years pass but this is all part of its charm. Ahh the good old days. I wonder how Alice would react if she were alive today? |
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Aromas and Flavors of the Past and Present (Cook's Classic Library) by Alice B. Toklas (Paperback - December 1, 1997)
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