Carried Away | Margin Notes

Too often I prepare for a picnic by dashing into a deli and grabbing a little salami and cheese, some breadsticks, a container of olives. Yet picnics pose many more interesting menu opportunities — so I queried some Bay Area takeout specialists for fresh ideas and wrote the following for the San Francisco Chronicle’s FOOD section:
“Prime [...]

Pigging Out

After living through a tad too much drama last summer with the cooking of a whole lamb, J and I turned to a pro this year, perusading our friend Tom McNary, the brilliant chef at Carried Away in Aptos, to perform the beast roasting. This ranks as one of our best ideas of 2008.

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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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