Kermit Lynch | Margin Notes

After a breakfast of good eggs, great bacon and lousy service at Market Bar, J and I filled a few shopping bags at the Ferry Building Farmers’ Market and then headed to Berkeley. Specifically to the parking lot of J’s favorite wine merchant, Kermit Lynch, where he and Cafe Fanny were hosting Oyster Bliss XVII.
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I left my waistline in San Francisco

I’m sitting here staring at my lunch — two hard-boiled eggs and a WASA cracker –while savoring memories of last weekend’s food festival. Between noon Friday and one o’clock Saturday I had lunch at The Four Seasons, dinner at Salt House, breakfast the next morning at Market Bar, one perfect macaron at Miette for elevenses [...]

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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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I left my waistline in San Francisco

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