Toklas Cook Book” fit right in with our program of callow preciousness we loved its waspishly magisterial tone, its hauteur and malice.
The book, published in 1954, was given to me by a fellow-member of a group of pretentious young persons I ran around with, who had nothing but amused contempt for middlebrow American culture, and whose revolt against the conformity of the time largely took the form of patronizing a furniture store called Design Research and of writing mannered letters to each other modelled on the mannered letters of certain famous literary homosexuals, not then known as such. Toklas Cook Book” for the first time, Eisenhower was in the White House and Liz Taylor had taken Eddie Fisher away from Debbie Reynolds.
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