The most famous cookery book-cum-memoir is probably the eponymous Alice B Toklas Cook Book (1954). It is one of the best-selling cookbooks of all time, but far from being a Delia Smith or a Mrs Beeton, it is more a work of literary modernism. It includes stories about her relationship with Gertrude Stein, and is perhaps best known for the inclusion of a recipe for Haschich [sic] Fudge which was originally excised from the American edition, but not the English. Hash brownies alone ensured Alice B Toklas became an icon of 1960s counterculture.