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The Alice B. Toklas Cookbook

by Gillian Polack

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I love The Alice B. Toklas Cookbook. Every now and again I open it and dip into it and sit there contemplating what I’ve just read.

Opening at random I find:

1. A heading “Little known French Dishes suitable for American and British Kitchens.”

2. p. 76, which mourns the loss of a favourite restaurant on the road the Chartres: it was a victim of the Second World War.

3. p. 49, which begins “From murder to detection is not far. And here is a note on tracing a soup to its source.” Toklas describes gazpacho for just over a page, gives us five recipes, then throws in ones she links are like it (cacik and tarata) to round things out. The chapter finishes “Too simple, my dear Watson.”










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Posted in General, books, other primary sources on March 23rd, 2007

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