Godiva was tired and old and Gertrude Stein in spring bought a new car...

Alice B. Toklas

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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

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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

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