Alice B. Toklas - French Quotes

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I have just learned a delicious French usage. On wedding invitations when they say the mass is at noon they mean one o'clock — when they say at noon precise they mean half after twelve — and when they say at very precisely noon they mean noon.

Alice B. Toklas

To cook as the French do one must respect the quality and flavour of the ingredients. Exaggeration is not admissible. Flavours are not all amalgamative. These qualities are not purchasable but may be cultivated. The haute cuisine has arrived at the enviable state of reacting instinctively to these known principles.

Alice B. Toklas

The French write plays and paint as naturally as we play jazz — it's just a national gift.

Alice B. Toklas