the French write plays and paint as naturally as we play jazz - it's just a national gift. — Alice B. Toklas Copy Share Image
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… — Alice B. Toklas Copy Share Image
Some time all kinds of letters will be published to the ineffable delight of endless readers. — Alice B. Toklas Copy Share Image
What is sauce for the goose may be sauce for the gander but is not necessarily sauce for the chicken, the duck, the turkey… — Alice B. Toklas Copy Share Image
This has been a most wonderful evening. Gertrude has said things tonight it will take her 10 years to understand. — Alice B. Toklas Copy Share Image
“Godiva was tired and old and Gertrude Stein in spring bought a new car...” — Alice B. Toklas Copy Share Image
There is nothing that is comparable to it, as satisfactory or as thrilling, as gathering the vegetables one has grown. — Alice B. Toklas Copy Share Image
The first gathering of salads, radishes and herbs made me feel like a mother about her baby - how could anything so beautiful be… — Alice B. Toklas Copy Share Image
In the menu, there should be a climax and a culmination. Come to it gently. One will suffice. — Alice B. Toklas Copy Share Image
Sex is perhaps like culture - a luxury that only becomes an art after generations of leisurely acquaintance. Why we scarcely approach either as… — Alice B. Toklas Copy Share Image
The first gatherings of the garden in May of salads, radishes and herbs made me feel like a mother about her baby - how… — Alice B. Toklas Copy Share Image
