Murder in the Kitchen by Alice B. Toklas [EPUB: 0241960754]

• Title: Murder in the Kitchen
• Author: Alice B. Toklas
• Pages: 81
• Publisher (Publication Date): 2011 by Penguin books
• Language: English
• ISBN-10, ISBN-13 or ASIN: 0241960754
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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.