# Murder in the Kitchen

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- Book: [Murder in the Kitchen](https://www.bookquiver.com/alice-b-toklas/murder-in-the-kitchen) ([Murder in the Kitchen.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/alice-b-toklas/murder-in-the-kitchen.md))
- Authors: [Alice B. Toklas](https://www.bookquiver.com/alice-b-toklas)
- Publisher: Penguin
- Medium: ebook
- ISBN: 978-01-4196-590-1
- Published: 2011-04-07
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: E-book

## Description

In this memoir-turned-cookbook, Alice B. Toklas describes her life with partner Gertrude Stein and their famed Paris salon, which entertained the great avant-garde and literary figures of their day. With dry wit and characteristic understatement Toklas ponders the ethics of killing a carp in her kitchen before stuffing it with chestnuts; decorating a fish to amuse Picasso at lunch; and travelling across France during the First World War in an old delivery truck, gathering local recipes along the way. She includes a friend's playful recipe for 'Haschiche Fudge', which promises 'brilliant storms of laughter and ecstatic reveries', much like her book.