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Today is the 50^th anniversary of the death of Alice B. Toklas in Paris, one event in a memorable 1967.

In a post several years ago, I used the title “That Was The Year That Was,” a variation of the mid- 1960s television show called “That Was The Week That Was.” The program, a predecessor of “Saturday Night Live,” and John Oliver’s “Last Week Tonight,” took a humorous, satiric look at the news of the previous week.

To commemorate Alice, I’m looking at  “…The Year That Was,” 1967. (She lived without Gertrude for twenty-one years.)

GertrudeandAlice together, June 1934

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In November 1954,  the first edition of The Alice B. Toklas Cook Book hit bookstores in the U.S. and U.K.  Since then it has never been out of print. Here is my tribute to this culinary classic in the online magazine scene4.

http://www.scene4.com/1114/hansgallas1114.html

copyright 2014 S. Maude Thornton

One of the services offered by Google is the Google Alert. Signing up  for a Google Alert means that you will be e mailed a link whenever the subject you’ve registered appears online in an article, blog, book title, etc.

Several years ago I signed up with “Gertrude Stein” and  “Alice B. Toklas” as my Google Alert topics. Everyday I get between 15-20 Alerts containing references to GertrudeandAlice.

The most common  Gertrude Alert pertains to her quote about Oakland, California that  “There is no there there.”  (In one Alert someone had thought she had said it about Los Angeles!)

Oakland in the 1890's when the there was there

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