American writer remembered as the secretary and longtime companion of Gertrude Stein. Her works include cookbooks and a volume of memoirs.
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American writer remembered as the secretary and longtime companion of Gertrude Stein. Her works include cookbooks and a volume of memoirs.
| 1954 | The Alice B. Toklas Cookbook. A collection of recipes and reminiscences donated by friends of Toklas and her late companion, the writer Gertrude Stein. Owing in part to its recipe for marijuana brownies, the cookbook would become a favorite of the youth counterculture in the 1960s and 1970s. |
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United States writer remembered as the secretary and companion of Gertrude Stein (1877-1967)
Synonym: Toklas
Alice B. Toklas (April 30,
She was born Alice Babette Toklas in San Francisco, California into
a middle-class Jewish family and attended schools in both San Francisco and Seattle. For a short time she also studied music at
the
Acting as Stein's confidante, lover, cook, secretary, muse, editor, critic, and general organizer, Toklas remained a
background figure, chiefly living in the shadow of Stein, until Stein published her memoirs in 1933 under the teasing
title
After the death of Gertrude Stein in 1946, Toklas published her own literary memoir, a
1954 book that mixed reminiscences and recipes under the title The Alice B. Toklas Cookbook. The most famous recipe
therein (actually contributed by her friend
This lent her name to the range of
In 1963 she published her autobiography, What Is Remembered, which abruptly ends with Stein's death, leaving little doubt that Stein was the love of her lifetime.
Her later years were very difficult because of poor health and financial problems, which were aggravated by the fact that the Stein heirs took away the paintings that had been left to her by Stein.
Toklas became a
The 1968
Alice B. Toklas is pictured in the Swedish absurdist comedy film Picassos Äventyr (Adventures of Picasso), directed by Tage
Danielsson. A
Vietnamese American writer Monique Truong developed a marginal character, Toklas' Indochinese cook, in her bestselling novel The Book of Salt, published in 2003. The novel contains substantial citations and relays several scenes taken from 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 song also appears on
Both Toklas and Stein are referred to in both the stage and film versions of Mame. In a lyric of the song Busom Buddies, Vera Charles declares: "But sweetie, I'll always be Alice Toklas if you'll be Gertrude Stein."
A chapter of the
The term "toke" (refering to taking a hit of marijuana) is accredited to Toklas' name.
The Toyes made mention of Toklas in the song "Monster Hash".
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