Alice B. Toklas

ABOUT ALICE B. TOKLAS

Member of the avant-garde movement best known for her intimate relationship with Gertrude Stein . Their relationship was forever immortalized in the lyric line from "Bosom Buddies," a key song in "Mame," the popular stage musical.

She attended school at the University of Washington, after which she opened a literary salon that attracted the likes of Ernest Hemingway and Pablo Picasso .

Her 1954 work, "The Alice B. Toklas Cookbook," contained a now-famous recipe for marijuana brownies.

She was raised in a middle-class Jewish family, the daughter of a Polish army officer. Her 1963 autobiography, "What Is Remembered," ended with the death of her longtime lover, Gertrude Stein .

She provided the inspiration for the Peter Sellers film "I Love You, Alice B. Toklas" from 1968.