“The French approach to food is characteristic; they bring to their consideration of the table the same appreciation, respect, intelligence and lively interest that they have for the other arts, for painting, for literature, and for the theatre. We foreigners… — 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 could anything so beautiful be mine. And this emotion of wonder filled me for each vegetable as it was gathered every year. There is nothing that is comparable to it, as satisfactory or as thrilling, as… — Alice B. Toklas Copy Share
