Dennis Leary | Margin Notes

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Standard pan-fried pork chops bore me, but I adore all the funkier cuts, particularly the cheeks and belly. Here’s a recipe from Dennis Leary, chef/owner of the marvelous little San Francisco bistro Canteen as well as The Sentinel, an even smaller Financial District take-out spot, for a pork belly sandwich that’s been haunting [...]

Beyond Salami and Cheese

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 [...]

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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.

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