Slow Food | Margin Notes

At the beginning of February I wrote about Tamasin Day-Lewis’s wonderful book, “Where Shall We Go for Dinner?” And now I’m eagerly awaiting an even newer work: a big fat compendium of her recipes — 1,000 of them — titled “All You Can Eat,” due in May. To complete my personal Tamasin triathlon, she recently [...]

From Puglia

The Slow Food dinner in the countryside of Puglia began with 17 appetizers, including freshly-fried little croquettes of I-know-not-what, sauteed zucchini slices, marinated peppers of various hues, olives, radishes and one bowl containing pale green slices of what looked like cucumber but tasted as if a melon had been frolicking in its gene pool.
J got [...]

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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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