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Ntozake Shange, Alice B. Toklas: What Cooks Know
January 23, 2013 “The first effable gazpacho was served to us in Malaga,” Alice notes. She and Gertrude Stein would also find “entirely different but equally exquisite” versions of the that soup in Seville and Cordoba, cities once under Islamic … Continue reading
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Tagged Alice B. Toklas, cacik, chlodnik, cookbooks, Cordoba, Crusades, gazpacho, Gertrude Stein, Malaga, Ntozake Shange, Polish, Seville, Spanish, tarata, Turkish, Vienna
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Space Brownies: Alice B. Toklas, Brion Gysin, William Burroughs
May 16, 2012 Gertrude Stein was dead at that point; she had died in 1947. In 1952 Alice signed a contract with Harper’s to write a cookbook. Then in her 70s, Alice was not as quick with her pen as … Continue reading
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Tagged Alice B. Toklas, Brion Gysin, canibus sativa, cookbook, cut-up method, Gertrude Stein, Harper's, hash brownie, hippie counterculture, I Love You, mash-up, Nova Trilogy, Peter Sellers, remix, William S. Burroughs
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Monique Truong, The Book of Salt
October 26, 2011 Monique Truong. The Book of Salt. Monique Truong’s second novel, Bitter in the Mouth, came out last month, so (the way things are done here) it’s the time to celebrate her first. I’ve taught The Book of … Continue reading
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