Gayle’s Bakery | Margin Notes

This year my birthday was a four-day festival, gastronomically bracketed by polenta and pork. Thursday night’s dinner at Village Pub in Woodside was pretty-near perfect, from the oxtail consomme with marrow dumplings right through the dessert beignets, followed by superb mignardises — my favorite new French word, learned from the sublime Clotilde at Chocolate & [...]

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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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