2008 December | Margin Notes

When I can’t sleep I recall favorite meals rather than count sheep. High on the list are the dishes of red mullet I’ve eaten at Le Chaufourg-en-Perigord, my favorite inn in la belle France. So perfectly does the chef there cook this gorgeous little fish that often I’ll order it two evenings in a row.
But it’s not [...]

Of Cookies and Chicken Livers

New cookie jar; no cookies.
This year I thought I’d try to stem my holiday avoirdupois accumulation by skipping cookie-baking, candy-making and plum-pudding-steaming. (OK, I haven’t steamed a pudding since 1964 and I can’t remember ever making candy, but I usually do fill numerous tins with homemade cookies.) This oven-avoiding sloth has had minimal effect on the [...]

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I write about food, interior design, and art for a variety of publications. And I scribble constantly in the margins of my cookbooks, recipe binders, travel diaries and interview notebooks. These ideas and tips are the margin notes of my culinary life and the core of this blog.

I ask only that comments never include a mention of peas -- that dinnertime horror of my clean-your-plate childhood, that blight of springtime restaurant menus, that staple of banquet entrees. Margin Notes is a Pea-free Zone.

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Of Cookies and Chicken Livers

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