Border Collie | Margin Notes

that the person running the front of the house plays a major role in a good restaurant experience. But I guess I shouldn’t plan on taking the border collies to Grayz.

Wild Child at The River Cafe

The first — and only — time I ate at London’s River Cafe, I set the carpet on fire. The blaze was small and quickly extinguished by J, and our waiter was lovely about the entire episode, but my heart still pounds when I think about what-might-have-been.
It’s just that I’d waited so long to go [...]

World’s Greatest Pot Roast

The dish J. and I call World’s Greatest Pot Roast isn’t a pot roast at all. More accurately it is my candidate for the World’s Easiest Short Ribs, but the recipe started as one for pot roast and then morphed into the meat and method I use today. Years ago I read a few lines [...]

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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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