The Alice B Toklas Cookbook [Electric Decade]

In which Gertrude is photographed by a new arrival in Paris and Alice shares her recipe and thoughts:

'Onion soup is a slow evolution in a new direction, which is the way great art is created - that is , everything is ready for it, and one person having the vision does it, discarding what they find unnecessary in the past.'

MAN RAY ..... Rupert Evans

In which Gertrude talks frankly to Ernest Hemingway and Alice prepares a creamy flan while 'I thought about ... how such big events like wars change our habits, our cooking and eventually our way of life.

ERNEST HEMINGWAY ..... Carl Prekopp

In which Gertrude mourns her friend and looks forward to the arrival of Basket and Alice reflects on how 'I have met many important people, several great people, but only three times in my life have I met a genius.

PICASSO ..... Paterson Joseph

In which Gertrude is invited to Cambridge and Alice thinks she should go: 'I do feel that your actual presence in England would help the cause. A personality does help to convince half-intelligent people.

EDITH SITWELL ..... Jane Slavin

LEONARD WOOLF ..... Robert Glenister

DEAN ..... Carl Prekopp

DON ..... Tom Glenister

In which Gertrude and Alice set off on their travels, meeting up with their friend Lily de Gramont and attempting to persuade a tenant to vacate their dream house. As our travels and reflections with Alice and Gertrude draw to a close, Alice reflects that 'To cook as the French do, one must respect the quality and flavor of the ingredients. Exaggeration is not admissible. Flavours are not amalgamative. These qualities are not purchasable, but they may be cultivated.

LILY DE GRAMONT ..... Nimmy March