Alice B. Toklas Quotes & Sayings

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

Dawn comes slowly but dusk is rapid. — Alice B. Toklas

Illness sets the mind free sometimes to roam and surmise. — Alice B. Toklas

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

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

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

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. — Alice B. Toklas

Godiva was tired and old and Gertrude Stein in spring bought a new car ... — Alice B. Toklas

Experience is never at bargain price. — Alice B. Toklas

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

As if a cookbook had anything to do with writing. — Alice B. Toklas

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

Sex is perhaps like culture - a luxury that only becomes an art after generations of leisurely acquaintance. Why we scarcely approach either as individuals - it's mass propulsion still! — Alice B. Toklas

I have just learned a delicious French usage. On wedding invitations when they say the mass is at noon they mean one o'clock -when they say at noon precise they mean half after twelve - and when they say at very precisely noon they mean noon. — Alice B. Toklas

The French approach to food is characteristic; they bring to their consideration of the table the same appreciation, respect, intelligence and lively interest that they have for the other arts, for painting, for literature, and for the theatre. We foreigners living in France respect and appreciate this point of view but deplore their too strict observance of a tradition which will not admit the slightest deviation in a seasoning or the suppression of a single ingredient. Restrictions aroused our American ingenuity, we found combinations and replacements which pointed in new directions and created a fresh and absorbing interest in everything pertaining to the kitchen. — Alice B. Toklas

But I don't want nutrition. I want food! — Alice B. Toklas