Alice B. Toklas

...their offspring" - the reader may be surprised to discover a meagre serving from the stars of literary gastronomy. Jane Grigson, Alice B. Toklas, Alice Waters and Elizabeth David are represented by a single dollop, though the latter's...

In this article: Champagne, Sandwich, Jane Grigson, Elizabeth David, and Tipping the Velvet

...how to prepare food. I have culinary memoirs, travelogues, scholarly histories and volumes of shameless foodie name-dropping (Alice B Toklas's spinach souffle for Picasso trumping Ismail Merchant's chicken curry for Maggie Smith). There are...

In this article: Nigel Slater, Julia Child, Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall, Rick Stein, Dim sum, Runner bean, Salmagundi, Scotch broth, Sourdough, and Flapjack

...the Alice B. Toklas Cook Book. Bill Richardson's book Waiting for Gertrude makes reference to Toklas and Stein's relationship. Toklas is mentioned in the Eric Schwartz song "Hattie and Mattie" on his That's How It's Gonna Be album. The...

In this article: Gertrude Stein, Alice Babette Toklas, Alice B. Toklas Cookbook, Diana Ross, Cannabis, San Francisco, California, Paris, and Van Ness Avenue

...the interview with Ms. Stein, whom he approached at her hotel on her first trip to Texas, accompanied by her companion, Alice B. Toklas. He described Ms. Stein as "the prince of verbal swat" in the letter, an apparent reference to her...

In this article: Walter Cronkite, Gertrude Stein, University of Texas at Austin, NASA, and Texas

...is more moral than actual," she observed. "No longer the people think they are depressed, the depression is over." Miss Alice B. Toklas, Miss Stein's traveling companion whose title is not "secretary," according to the author, was present.

In this article: Gertrude Stein, Walter Cronkite, and The Daily Texan

...Florence Hardy. Gertrude Stein wrote hers as if it were by her partner, Alice B ­Toklas, and then called it The ­Autobiography of Alice B Toklas. There is also the problem that biography is always, to some extent, autobiography. While...

In this article: Hermione Lee, Henry David Thoreau, Leslie Stephen, Virginia Woolf, Dog, Orlando, The Sunday Times, and John Haffenden

...B. Toklas is a 1933 book by Gertrude Stein, written by Stein in the style of an autobiography by her lover, Alice B. Toklas. Alice B. Toklas, photographed by Carl Van Vechten, 1949 Alice B. Toklas says she was born into an affluent...

In this article: Gertrude Stein, Henri Matisse, The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas, Paris, Pablo Picasso, Leo Stein, and Guillaume Apollinaire

...biography examines the relationship between the French-domiciled American writer, Gertrude Stein, and her lover of 40 years, Alice B Toklas. It questions the myth of genius and caretaker to eke out the more ambiguous powe ADVERTISEMENT r...

In this article: Gertrude Stein, Alice B Toklas, First World War, and Yale

...ambitions. Stein's method was to compose in a semi-trance and then go to bed, leaving the results for Toklas to decipher. The ministering Toklas fed Stein's "self-admiration and self-assurance," but there was a price to be paid just the...

In this article: Gertrude Stein, Janet Malcolm, World War II, Europe, Vinegar, Alice B. Toklas Cookbook, and The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas

...analytic writer, with Gertrude Stein and her modernist shenanigans. And in Two Lives, her fascinating new study of Stein and Alice B. Toklas, Malcolm seems to have no great love for Stein s more experimental writing. She dispenses entirely...

In this article: Gertrude Stein, Janet Malcolm, Sandwich, Sylvia Plath, Katie Roiphe, and Paris