The Vegetable Gardens at Bilignin – The final chapter of The Alice B. Toklas Cook Book

The Alice B. Toklas Cook Book, 1954

“For fourteen successive years the gardens at Bilignin were my joy, working in them during the summers and planning and dreaming of them during the winters. The summers frequently commenced early in April with the planting, and ended late in October with the last gathering of the winter vegetables.
Bilignin surrounded by mountains and not far from the French Alps —”

The Alice B. Toklas Cook Book is one of the bestselling cookbooks of all time. Written by Alice B. Toklas, writer Gertrude Stein’s life-partner, Toklas wrote this book as a favor to Random House to make up for her unwillingness at the time to write her memoirs, in deference to Stein’s 1933 book about her, The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas.

Chapter 13 – The Vegetable Gardens at Bilignin

Alice describes her food gardening experiences in great detail in the last chapter of this famous book.

Read most of the rest of the chapter with recipes here at Google Books.