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Jul 16th, 2008 by Marilyn

Sketchbook archives! Just one more way to yammer about food.

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.

8 Responses to “drawing board”

on 25 Jul 2008 at 6:48 am1Renovation Therapy

Hey….just found this new page on your blog. Love the sketches and now I want gelato…at 7:47AM.
on 09 Aug 2008 at 1:42 pm2jenni

LOVELY !!! I love this new addition!!
on 12 Sep 2008 at 2:32 pm3Rechelle

Whoa! These are better than almost every children’s book in our house. How cool.
on 14 Sep 2008 at 3:53 pm4Shearyadi

Nice sketches and “delicious” blog! My wife would love this
on 18 Sep 2008 at 12:06 pm5Summer

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!
on 18 Sep 2008 at 10:03 pm6Marilyn

Thanks to all of you, so sweet! And hello, Summer, nice to see you in here! Glad you like the scribblings.
on 06 Nov 2008 at 7:29 am7wheneatingawolf

I like sketchbooks. I like sketchbooks of food. Can we see some more please?
on 06 Nov 2008 at 11:06 am8Marilyn

Thanks Nick - I’ll plunder a few more notebooks. Plenty where that came from.