The name, Alice B., is inspired by the legendary California-born author Alice B. Toklas, who wrote, amongst other things, a memoir disguised as a cookbook chronicling her life with partner Gertrude Stein. Alice and Gertrude shared a publicly acknowledged and enduring relationship for nearly four decades and, as members of the Parisian avant-garde of the early 20th century, hosted regular salons attended by relative “unknowns” who would go on to become some of the world’s most influential and celebrated artists and writers.Mary Sue Milliken and Susan Feniger have been James Beard and Julia Child award-winning chefs, cookbook authors, television personalities, and entrepreneurs. They duo met working at Le Perroquet, one of Chicago’s finest French restaurants, and quickly forged a business partnership.Mary Sue and Susan are highly successful individuals as well as an irresistibly dynamic team. From chef to television, their careers began in 1993, as two of sixteen chefs invited to cook with the legendary Julia Child in her PBS series “Cooking with Master Chefs.”https://visitpalmsprings.com/eat-and-drink/alice-b/