- 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
- Download File Format:EPUB
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.