Alice B. Toklas Quotes

• But I don't want nutrition. I want food!

  Alice B. Toklas

  Food, Want, Nutrition

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• Experience is never at bargain price.

  Alice B. Toklas

  Experience, Bargains

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• Dawn comes slowly but dusk is rapid.

  Alice B. Toklas

  Dawn, Aging, Rapids

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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

  Vegetables, Gardening, Gathering

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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

  Beautiful, Mother, Baby

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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

  Food, Turkeys, Ducks

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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

  Should, Culmination, Menus

  Alice B. Toklas (1958). “Aromas and Flavors of Past and Present”

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• Illness sets the mind free sometimes to roam and surmise.

  Alice B. Toklas

  Mind, Mind Free, Sometimes

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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

  Beautiful, Mother, Baby

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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

  Art, Sex, Luxury

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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

  Writing, Play, France

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• As if a cookbook had anything to do with writing.

  Alice B. Toklas

  Food, Writing, Cooking

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• Some time all kinds of letters will be published to the ineffable delight of endless readers.

  Alice B. Toklas

  Delight, Letters, Kind

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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

  Mean, Twelve, Noon

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