From the imagined journal of Alice B. Toklas:
“1.January 1910, 27 rue de Fleurus
All the guests have left and Gertrude has retired. What a glorious evening!
And so a new year begins with the most wonderful of news which I will share at the end of today’s entry, saving the best for last.
Paris, 1910
I was asked by Gertrude and Leo to assist in preparing the holiday’s food which I did with pleasure. There are so many recipes that I have collected from my grandmother and mother and many of our cooks that someday I may have to do a cook book.
Assisting with soirées here has become such a pleasurable task as I have become quite familiar with the household as I come daily to transcribe Gertrude’s notebooks on the Smith-Premier typewriter—a marvelous apparatus.
