inside the legendary cookbook of Alice B. Toklas
- Written by: Alice Gorman, Associate Professor in Archaeology and Space Studies, Flinders University
Around the Fish – Paul Klee (1926)Public domain, via Wikimedia CommonsOur cultural touchstones series looks at influential books.
Alice B. Toklas wrote one of the bestselling cookbooks of all time. One reason for its popularity was the inclusion of stories of her 39-year relationship with the great modernist writer Gertrude Stein. Another was...