Not sure how exactly I started on this kick of reading memoirs that were punctuated by recipes, but here I am with another. Best known as Gertrude Stein's companion and immortalized in Stein's "The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas" in this case Alice is writing herself.
Through their travels together, their time in occupied France during the war and through visits many famous friends, we follow the tales of Gertrude and Alice and then conveniently what they had for lunch.
Unlike some books, this is not a recipe book and you'd be hard pressed to create one of the buttery sugary confections she details to make your mouth water - but it sure would be fun trying if your arteries would survive it.
What have we really learned? That Gertrude was not the only writer in the relationship and that the hassish brownies are not the best recipe in the book.
See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Alice_B._Toklas_Cookbook
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