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storytelling in the kitchen. curious essays are dispatched every other Thursday; Peels, a writer's almanac, comes out on the first Monday of each month

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About Margaux Vialleron

reading, looking; kneading, writing. author of Breaststrokes and The Yellow Kitchen, short stories, and The Onion Papers newsletter.

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