Alice B. Toklas

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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
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This has been a most wonderful evening. Gertrude has said things tonight it will take her 10 years to understand.
- Alice B. Toklas
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But I don't want nutrition. I want food!
- Alice B. Toklas
Collection: Food
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Experience is never at bargain price.
- Alice B. Toklas
Collection: Experience
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Dawn comes slowly but dusk is rapid.
- Alice B. Toklas
Collection: Dawn
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There is nothing that is comparable to it, as satisfactory or as thrilling, as gathering the vegetables one has grown.
- Alice B. Toklas
Collection: Vegetables
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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
Collection: Beautiful
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What is sauce for the goose may be sauce for the gander, but it is not necessarily sauce for the chicken, the duck, the turkey or the Guinea hen.
- Alice B. Toklas
Collection: Food
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In the menu, there should be a climax and a culmination. Come to it gently. One will suffice.
- Alice B. Toklas
Collection: Should
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Illness sets the mind free sometimes to roam and surmise.
- Alice B. Toklas
Collection: Mind
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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
Collection: Art
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The first gatherings of the garden in May of salads, radishes and herbs made me feel like a mother about her baby - how could anything so beautiful be mine. And this emotion of wonder filled me for each vegetable as it was gathered every year. There is nothing that is comparable to it, as satisfactory or as thrilling, as gathering the vegetables one has grown.
- Alice B. Toklas
Collection: Beautiful
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the French write plays and paint as naturally as we play jazz - it's just a national gift.
- Alice B. Toklas
Collection: Writing
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As if a cookbook had anything to do with writing.
- Alice B. Toklas
Collection: Food
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Some time all kinds of letters will be published to the ineffable delight of endless readers.
- Alice B. Toklas
Collection: Delight
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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
Collection: Mean