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Jul 16th, 2008 by Marilyn
Sketchbook archives! Just one more way to yammer about food.
As if you needed more visual pointers on Mandelbread: shape, bake, cut, bake, eat! Here’s the more photographic look at my beloved “Jewish biscotti.”
Testing scones in a giant, industrial-sized Orange County bakery facility and nervously presenting the finished product to grocery store execs. Notes for Josie, early 2000.
In early 2000 I was meeting with large bakeries in California about producing my scones on a larger scale. I felt suffocated by the constant drive of L.A., and after a few days we took our rental car up the coast. I kept a sketchbook for Josie, tuning my notes for her four-year old ears.
Flowers, bakeries, Swedish meatballs and menu notes for Josie in Santa Barbara, California – 2000.
From the “I remember Grandma” category, it’s a Skyscraper Sundae – circa 1975 – from La Petite, a Chicago diner near Grandma Edna’s apartment with a fancier name than it needed. The uniformed waitresses all wore name tags and brought me free sundaes with crunchy pink wafers – the menu read SKYSCRAPER, and to a girl in a red booth with big eyes, that’s exactly what it was.
Magic macarons from Laduree, cassis sorbet (and a shot of cassis) plus extra-fat pizza with eggs.
from June, 2008 – Paris
Banana, lemon, pistachio and raspberry gelato
from August, 1990 – Caffe Florian, Venice.
We were sweaty, unwashed backpackers who splurged on a real table and perfect gelato. Blistering, grimy, icy, creamy, totally spoon-clinking romance.
Hey….just found this new page on your blog. Love the sketches and now I want gelato…at 7:47AM.
LOVELY !!! I love this new addition!!
Whoa! These are better than almost every children’s book in our house. How cool.
Nice sketches and “delicious” blog! My wife would love this
Your drawings are beautiful. There’s such joy and spontaneity in them. I love this! Actually, I love everything about your blog so none of this is really a surprise!
Thanks to all of you, so sweet! And hello, Summer, nice to see you in here! Glad you like the scribblings.
I like sketchbooks. I like sketchbooks of food. Can we see some more please?
Thanks Nick – I’ll plunder a few more notebooks. Plenty where that came from.
How did I miss this? Just beautiful, Marilyn. Your “scribblings” are so fresh and fun and alive!
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I just found your blog… really like it. The sketches are wonderful. Here’s a question… do you ever sketch out menus and ideas before you cook? Thanks for sharing your drawings.
I love your sketch book drawings. I kept one when I was traveling. Wonderful to look back on. A real treasure. Do make more!
dahlila.
true artist you are…in the kitchen and on paper!!
You should have those sketches turned into fabric! I could see curtains in my kitchen with any of those repeated all over crisp white cotton (or linen!) curtains. Wonderful sketches!
Cindy, http://www.cindydyer.wordpress.com
this is *fantastic*!!!