When “The Alice B. Toklas Cook Book” was first published in 1954, it included a recipe for “Haschich Fudge,” made with black pepper, nutmeg, cinnamon, coriander, dates, figs, almonds, peanuts, sugar, butter and “a bunch of canibus sativa (sic).”
Alice B. Toklas, author of the cookbook, didn’t realize that the recipe, contributed by her friend Brion Gysin, a notable writer and painter, was intended as a joke. And she reportedly did not have a clue what “canibus sativa” was…