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Murder in the Kitchen

In this memoir-turned-cookbook, Alice B. Toklas describes her life with partner Gertrude Stein and their famed Paris salon, which entertained the great avant-garde and literary figures of their day.

With dry wit and characteristic understatement Toklas ponders the ethics of killing a carp in her kitchen before stuffing it with chestnuts; decorating a fish to amuse Picasso at lunch; and travelling across France during the First World War in an old delivery truck, gathering local recipes along the way. She includes a friend's playful recipe for 'Haschiche Fudge', which promises 'brilliant storms of laughter and ecstatic reveries', much like her book.

This edition is part of the Great Food series designed by Coralie Bickford-Smith.

  • Format
  • paperback
  • Pages
  • 96
  • Language
  • english
  • ISBN
  • 978-0-241-95103-3
  • EAN
  • 9780241951033
  • Genres
  • food, memoir, cookbooks, cooking, biography, essays
  • Release date
  • 2011