Etymology

Alice B. Toklas brownie

Today it means: A sweet cake or biscuit made with cannabis. Full definition →

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Named after American artist Alice Babette Toklas (1877–1967; the life partner of Gertrude Stein), whose The Alice B. Toklas Cook Book (1954) included a recipe for fudge containing cannabis.

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