Alice B. Toklas, petite, elegant, and mustachioed, moved to Paris from San Francisco in 1907. The day after she arrived, she met Gertrude Stein, and a bell rang in her head that alerted her that she was in the presence of genius. Did a bell ring in Gertrude Stein’s head to alert her she was in also in the the presence of genius: the future inventor of the pot brownie and, therefore, the Mother of Edibles?
Chicken kale meatballs with CBD-infused cherry tomato and pesto sauces Alice B. Toklas gets misplaced credit for spreading the gospel of pot brownies. That s thanks largely to the 1968 movie
I Love You, Alice B. Toklas, in which a young woman bakes up brownies liberally laced with an extra leafy ingredient. In fact,
The Alice B. Toklas Cook Book does include a Haschich Fudge recipe, as well as vignettes of the author s life with her partner, Gertrude Stein. Toklas recipe, however, is not for brownies or even fudge, but for dried-fruit-and-nut balls spiced with nutmeg, cinnamon, black pepper and a bunch of canibus [