Cornmeal Pound Cake | Margin Notes

For holiday gifts, some people bake cookies. I booze cherries.
A few years ago I was on deadline for a Boxing Day story and needed more column inches. Remembering the marinated fruits on the cheese cart at Campton Place, I ransacked my pantry, found some dried tart cherries and macerated them in brandy to pair with [...]

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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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