This title features recipes and reminiscences from Alice B. Toklas, Gertrude Stein's lover a and prominent American expat living in France - and writing about its cuisine - during the first half of the 20th century. Long before Julia Child or M.F.K. Fisher discovered French cooking, Alice B. Toklas [...]

Beste oversatte kokebok i Norge!

Gourmand International har kåret Alice B. Toklas kokebok til beste oversatte kokebok i Norge for 2012, og den går videre i konkurransen internasjonalt til Awards Event som går av stabelen i Paris 23. februar 2013!

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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 kit[...]

On tissue-thin paper in a tiny, often undecipherable hand, Alice Toklas described her daily life in Paris in absorbing detail, like a latter-day Madame de S vign . Here are shrewd, witty observations on some of the most interesting artists, musicians, and writers of the twentieth century: Thornton W[...]

The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas was written in 1933 by Gertrude Stein in the guise of an autobiography authored by Alice B. Toklas, who was her lover. It is a fascinating insight into the art scene in Paris as the couple were friends with Paul Cezanne, Henri Matisse and Pablo Picasso. They begi[...]

En modernistisk klassiker När Gertrude Stein åkte hem till USA för första gången efter flytten till Paris såg hon sitt namn i neonskrift över Times Square i New York. Romanen Alice B. Toklas självbiografi var redan en osannolik jättesuccé. Turnén som följde gjorde Gertrude Stein till [...]