ARTIFICIAL PARADISES 2
THE SKILL OF MRS. SIN.
Private opium party, Paris, 1920s. Ernest-Lucien Bonnotte.
Compiling her famous cookbook in the early 1950s, Alice Toklas requested friends to recall their favorite recipes. Writer Brion Gysin offered, tongue in cheek, his directions for Haschich [sic] Fudge, made from honey, nuts, and cannabis.
This is the food of Paradise—of Baudelaire’s …
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