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elleng

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2. Sure, if you want to mess around in the kitchen, or Paris!

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Mon Mar 24, 2025, 12:54 PM

Mar 2025

Long before Julia Child discovered French cooking, Alice B. Toklas was sampling local dishes, collecting recipes, and cooking for the writers, artists, and expats who lived in Paris between the wars. Hemingway, Fitzgerald, Wilder, Matisse, and Picasso shared meals at the home she kept with Gertrude Stein, who famously memorialized her in The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas.

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Sure, if you want to mess around in the kitchen, or Paris! elleng Mar 2025 #2