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storytelling in the kitchen; annotated recipes are sent on Mondays, long-form essays are dispatched every other Thursday

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About Margaux Vialleron

writing, looking, researching in kitchens. author of Breaststrokes: a novel (May 2024), The Yellow Kitchen: a novel (2022), short stories and The Onion Papers newsletter.

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