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Gourmet’s Potatoes from Alice B. Toklas Cook Book

Omelette Aurore Recipe from Alice B. Toklas in Artists’ and Writers’ Cookbook, 1961, First Edition, First Printing

Gourmet’s Potatoes from Alice B. Toklas Cook Book: Another great recipe from the greatest American historical cookbook of all time, Alice B. Toklas Cook Book.

Gourmet's Potatoes from Alice B. Toklas Cook Book

Gourmet’s Potatoes from Alice B. Toklas Cook Book

You can see the cookbook here: https://www.vintagecookbook.com/product/alice-b-toklas-cook-book-w-dust-jacket/

Alice B. Toklas Cook Book w/ Dust Jacket: The Alice B. Toklas Cook Book, written by Alice B. Toklas and illustrated by Sir Francis Rose. First American edition, published in 1954 by Harper and Brothers, New York. Hard cover, with dust jacket, 288 pages. This book is a true artifact of American history, as Miss Toklas lived with Gertrude Stein on Paris’ Left Bank, as a member of the Lost Generation. Many anecdotes–and recipes–come from Toklas’s and Stein’s adventures with the American Fund for the French Wounded during World War II, traveling the French countryside in their car, Aunt Pauline. Other recipes come from their travels in the United States, from hotels and restaurants around the world, well as from famous and not-so-famous friends. It is an excellent cookbook, with recipes and stories all told in charming detail! Toklas gives us more than 350 recipes for meals that you can serve, garnished with her juicy bits of literary history! Dust jacket has a few dings. The book is in MINT condition. Not even a previous owner’s signature! Definitely gift quality!

See Vintage Cookbook’s Antique Recipes section for two great Toklas recipes, Browned Spinach Daisy and Custard Josephine Baker. See them here: http://74.220.207.130/~vintagp9/?p=1767