Alice B. Toklas Quotes

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

Illness sets the mind free sometimes to roam and surmise.

Experience is never at bargain price.

As if a cookbook had anything to do with writing.

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

Godiva was tired and old and Gertrude Stein in spring bought a new car ...

Dawn comes slowly but dusk is rapid.

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

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

This has been a most wonderful evening. Gertrude has said things tonight it will take her 10 years to understand.

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

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

What is sauce for the goose may be sauce for the gander but is not necessarily sauce for the chicken, the duck, the turkey or the guinea hen.