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Alice B. Toklas was an American author known for her deep friendship with Gertrude Stein. Her works primarily revolve around personal experiences and interpersonal relationships, renowned for their unique style and profound insights.

Aromas and Flavors of Past and Present

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“Dawn comes slowly but dusk is rapid.”

Aging Dawn Rapids Dusk

Author:Alice B. Toklas

“Experience is never at bargain price.”

Experience Bargains

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“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 very precisely noon they mean noon.”

Mean Half Mass France Clock Twelve Precise Delicious Invitations Noon Usage Wedding Invitation

Author:Alice B. Toklas

“the French write plays and paint as naturally as we play jazz - it's just a national gift.”

Writing Play Jazz Paint France

Author:Alice B. Toklas

“There is nothing that is comparable to it, as satisfactory or as thrilling, as gathering the vegetables one has grown.”

Vegetables Gardening Gathering Thrilling Radishes

Author:Alice B. Toklas

“Illness sets the mind free sometimes to roam and surmise.”

Mind Sometimes Illness Mind Free

Author:Alice B. Toklas

“Sex is perhaps like culture - a luxury that only becomes an art after generations of leisurely acquaintance. Why we scarcely approach either as individuals - it's mass propulsion still!”

Art Stills Culture Individual Sex Generations Approach Mass Luxury Acquaintance Propulsion

Author:Alice B. Toklas

“Some time all kinds of letters will be published to the ineffable delight of endless readers.”

Kind Reader Letters Delight Endless All Kinds Ineffable

Author:Alice B. Toklas

“The first gathering of salads, radishes and herbs made me feel like a mother about her baby - how could anything so beautiful be mine?”

Feels Firsts Made Beautiful Mother Mines Baby Gathering Herbs Salad Like A Mother Radishes

Author:Alice B. Toklas

“But I don't want nutrition. I want food!”

Want Food Nutrition

Author:Alice B. Toklas

“In the menu, there should be a climax and a culmination. Come to it gently. One will suffice.”

Should Menus Climax Culmination

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“As if a cookbook had anything to do with writing.”

Ifs Writing Food Cooking Culinary Cookbook

Author:Alice B. Toklas

“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 gathering the vegetables one has grown.”

Feels Years Firsts May Made Beautiful Mother Emotion Wonder Mines Baby Garden Filled Vegetables Gathering Thrilling Herbs Salad Like A Mother Radishes

Author:Alice B. Toklas

“What is sauce for the goose may be sauce for the gander, but it is not necessarily sauce for the chicken, the duck, the turkey or the Guinea hen.”

May Food Cooking Culinary Chickens Ducks Turkeys Sauce Geese Hens Guinea Roast Chicken Gander

Author:Alice B. Toklas

About the Author

Born: April 30, 1877
Died: March 7, 1967
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Quotes: 14

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