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    Today, to Celebrate Alice B. Toklas’s birthday, try her famous recipe for pot brownies :)

    Emily Temple
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    April 30, 2019, 4:20pm

    Alice B. Toklas was born on April 30, 1877. To celebrate the anniversary of her birth, or just to celebrate the fact that it’s Tuesday and we’re all tired already, why not try her recipe for “Haschich Fudge (which anyone could whip up on a rainy day),” originally included in her famous cookbook, which some would say was the book that helped her find her own voice. After all, she says it’s “the food of Paradise . . .

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