Alice B. Toklas, writer Gertrude Stein's life partner, wrote the book to make up for her unwillingness at the time to write her memoirs, in deference to Stein's 1933 book, The Autobiography of Alice B.

Made from spices, nuts, fruit, and cannabis, Hashish Fudge quickly became a sensation in its own right.

In the recipe, Toklas says it is called "the food of paradise" and goes on to suggest places where the cook might find the cannabis.

She cautions two pieces are quite enough and that one should be prepared for hysterical fits of laughter and wild floods of thoughts on "many simultaneous planes."

Although Toklas later said that this recipe was given to her by her friend Brion Gysin, her name is forever linked with cannabis edibles due to its great success.