Pierre Herme | Margin Notes

I miss Kim Severson.Oh, I know she writes regularly — and wonderfully — for the New York Times, but I miss her days on staff at the San Francisco Chronicle when she wrote about restaurants and chefs and food purvveyors closer to me, me, me.If you don’t know Severson’s work, you’ll find a terrific example [...]

Demolishing My Low-Carb Vows

Oh, I am loving this book from the chef/owner of San Francisco’s Citizen Cake. Gorgeously photographed, sassily written and stuffed with exciting recipes, “Demolition Desserts” is one helluva book. Even the back cover blurbs are impressive: Mario Batali calls it “crazy, smart and beautiful,” Pierre Herme claims to want to try [...]

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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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