Toklas, Alice B., 1877-1967

Toklas was a writer and companion to Gertrude Stein.

Biographical Note

Alice B. Toklas (1877-1967) was an author and the life partner of Gertrude Stein. Don Frank is the son of one of Toklas' childhood friends. After his service in the armed forces, he met Toklas in Europe.

Toklas was an author and the life partner of Gertrude Stein. Don Frank is the son of her childhood friends.

Writer Toklas was born in San Francisco, Calif., and raised there and in Seattle, Wash. On a trip to Europe in 1907 she met Gertrude Stein, with whom she then lived and worked until Stein's death. For further biographical information, see Notable American Women: The Modern Period (1980).

Epithet: cookery writer and friend of Gertrude Stein

Alice B. Toklas was the life partner of Gertrude Stein. After Stein's death Toklas published her own memoir and recipe collection, The Alice B. Toklas Cookbook.

Alice B. Toklas was the life parter of Gertrude Stein. After Stein's death Toklas published her own mermoir and recipe collection, The Alice B. Toklas Cookbook.

Alice Babette Toklas was born in San Francisco, California, into a middle-class Jewish family. She was the life partner of writer Gertrude Stein until Stein's death in 1946. Stein published her memoirs in 1933 under the teasing title THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF ALICE B. TOKLAST. Ironically it became Stein's bestselling book. After the death of Gertrude Stein in 1946, Toklas published her own literary memoir, a 1954 book that mixed reminiscences and recipes under the title THE ALICE B. TOKLAS COOKBOOK. The most famous recipe therein was called "Hashisch Fudge", a mixture of fruit, nuts, spices, and "cannabis". The cookbook has not been out of print since it was published.

Toklas was a writer and companion to Gertrude Stein.