2009 August | Margin Notes

After watching the delightful Julie and Julia I felt compelled to cook something from my battered 1968 edition of Mastering.
Cassoulet may seem like a strange choice for an August dinner party but I figured it would be cold and foggy at the beach house and that even if it wasn’t, my guests still [...]

The Return of Souffle Tuesday

I know; I know. It’s been a while.
The last eight weeks have involved a birth, a health scare with my mom in Georgia, a trip to Texas and– last week–one helluva head cold, plus plenty of plain old summertime procrastination. But, Margin Notes is back –with a great souffle recipe (and [...]

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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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