Alice B. Toklas

Alice Babette Toklas ( born April 30, 1877 in San Francisco; † 7, 1967 in Paris) was an American author and the secretary and companion of the writer and art collector Gertrude Stein.

Life

Alice B. Toklas came from a middle-class Jewish family from California. She was educated in public schools and the University of Washington, where she studied music.

1907 Toklas traveled to Paris, where she met Gertrude Stein. Two years later she moved to Gertrude and her brother, Leo Stein, jointly inhabited apartment in the rue de Fleurus 27, which also served as a parlor and private art museum and many artists such as Picasso and Henri Matisse, as well as writers such as Apollinaire, Sherwood Anderson and Ernest Hemingway dressed as a meeting place. Toklas was Gertrude Stein's lover, cook, secretary, muse, editor and critic. She kept always in the background, lived in the shadow of stone. Awareness they peaked in 1933, when the stone memoirs, The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas, was published, describing the stone from the perspective of Toklas.

After Leo Stein had left in protest against the " menage a trois " and the literary activity of his sister the 1913 budget, the two women launched the salon on alone.

The couple lived together until Gertrude Stein's death in 1946. Toklas began in the rue Christine 5, both of which had taken after termination of the apartment in the rue de Fleurus in 1938, her own career by writing cookbooks. She had already collected a long time recipes. In 1954 she published The Alice B. Toklas Cookbook and 1958 Aromas and Flavors of Past and Present. A probably suggested by a friend Recipe Cookbook is a butterscotch with Hashish ( hashish fudge ), which could not be published in the first edition in the U.S. and appeared only in the British edition. The book had a lot of success and is reprinted to the present day. Toklas's memoir What is Remembered published in 1963. Toklas lived 21 years longer than stone, but her book ended with Stein's death.

Gertrude Stein had Alice B. Toklas determined together with her nephew Allan Stein to the executor, because they are so far should take care of unpublished manuscripts at the time of printing. Toklas but withdrew in September 1946 by the administration of the estate back. You should get by selling images grants for their livelihood, according to Stein's legacy. After Allan Stein's death in 1951 but his wife Robina procured a court ruling that her zusprach the remaining images from the rue Christine. Toklas was terminated in 1964, the apartment, and they moved to the rue de la Convention, where she spent her final years in poverty.

In 1957, Toklas was converted to the Catholic faith, the reason was their idea, they will then united in heaven with Gertrude Stein.

Alice B. Toklas is buried along with Gertrude Stein in Père Lachaise Cemetery in Paris. My name is inscribed in golden letters pasted on the back of the stone grave stone.

Others

I Love You, Alice B. Toklas ( dt Let me kiss your Butterfly) is an American comedy film from 1968 with Peter Sellers in the lead role. The protagonist Nancy bakes her boyfriend Harold - a recipe from Alice B. Toklas ' cookbook - Hash cookies. From then on, his life changes.

Work

  • Alice B. Toklas: The Alice B. Toklas Cook Book, Harper & Bros 1954; New edition at Lyons Press, New York 1998, ISBN 1-55821-754-1; dt The Alice B. Toklas Cookbook. Brinkmann & Bose, Berlin 2011, ISBN 978-3-94004809-7
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