After I first learn by way of Marjory Candy’s e-book, [ ] is a breakfast meals (over breakfast), reader, I really teared up. As a lot poetry e-book as recipe e-book, full of lyrical odes to and photographic snapshots of to the day’s earliest meal, it’s only a stunning bodily object. It’s true, I’ve come to comprehend, of most every little thing Marjory creates: recipe books, rental homes, pastries.
Marjory is “a farmer, prepare dinner, and author”—in that order.”I used to be born and grew up on the coast of Maine,” she tells us. “After a quick stint working for artists in New York and a transformative year-plus-some in Italy, I lived in New Mexico for 11 years managing small natural vegetable farms. I bought into cooking—and writing about cooking—as an extension of the farm work. For those who mush all of that have into one chunk you get to the place I’m now: again in Maine, cooking meals at Cafe Grazie, which I co-own and run with my biz associate, Marcy Taubes.”
At the moment Marjory writes in along with her preferrred home (“I’ve been a Judd freak for a very long time,” she says), kitchen pet peeve, the colour she thinks is “sneakily impartial,” and likewise some photographs of actually delicious-looking summer time muffins.

You’re invited to dinner. What’s your go-to reward?
Candles! Danica (which produce a veritable rainbow of colours and sizes) are a neighborhood fave right here in midcoast Maine, however my buddy Kate (additionally native) hand-dips these delicate, FRAGRANT, twisty guys, that are the simply the proper little providing together with some contemporary flowers.
What’s in your bedside desk?
A number of pairs of Ursa Main earrings I’ve remembered to pluck out simply earlier than drifting off to sleep, my 64-oz water bottle that I can’t ever be with out, and a stack of books I’m studying and “studying”: Circe (practically completed!), The Magic Mountain (technically actively studying, however I’m severely trudging) and Lucia Berlin’s brief tales (one in all my favorites, which I’m re-reading intermittently alongside the opposite two.) Additionally, this morning’s espresso cup that I deserted after the final sip—a classic Snoopy mug that claims “at occasions life is pure pleasure!”