Marginalia

Stories & recipes.

Marginalia takes its name from notes written in the margins. Mine begin with lived experiences: a childhood kitchen, a table in New Orleans, an invitation into someone’s home.

A photograph, a book or a conversation can send me back to one of those places. Here, I write down the stories and share the recipes.

The stories

Ghana

People hauling a fishing net in the shallows in Ghana
“I invite you.”
In Ghana, my friend’s seven-year-old granddaughter looked up at me and said those words. Read story →