19 Quotes by Alice B. Toklas

In the menu, there should be a climax and a culmination. Come to it gently. One will suffice.

There is nothing that is comparable to it, as satisfactory or as thrilling, as gathering the vegetables one has grown.

Dawn comes slowly but dusk is rapid.

The first gathering of salads, radishes and herbs made me feel like a mother about her baby - how could anything so beautiful be mine?

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

What is sauce for the goose may be sauce for the gander but is not necessarily sauce for the chicken, the duck, the turkey or the guinea hen.

This has been a most wonderful evening. Gertrude has said things tonight it will take her 10 years to understand.

But I don’t want nutrition. I want food!

The first gathering of salads, radishes and herbs made me feel like a mother about her baby – how could anything so beautiful be mine?