Femme de Joie – Page 12

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Out of Town For Memphis Minnie’s BBQ

Posted on March 29, 2010 by Femme de Joie

Femme de Joie and Amico del Signore have been enthusiastic fans of KPIG radio for several years after reading about it from a column by Jim Dyar in The Newspaper Of Which We Dare Not Speak Its Name. It was through the PIG that we first got wind of a BBQ joint in San Francisco called Memphis Minnie’s Barbecue Joint and Smokehouse. Being in The City on unrelated business, we made it our business to pay Memphis Minnie’s a visit.

Before we go any further, let’s… Continue Reading →

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Trader Joe’s Knows Its Rolls

Posted on March 17, 2010 by Femme de Joie

Femme de Joie loves her a good sandwich, the drippier and messier the better. French dip with red onions and pepper Jack cheese, meatball with sauce, gooey chicken salad, Po’ Boy with olive salad, even that 70s standby of avocado-tomato-sprouts-cheese…… Continue Reading →

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Pio Loco: Is Anyone in the Kitchen?

Posted on March 8, 2010 by Femme de Joie

Pio Loco first opened in 1986 in a former pizzeria on Lake Boulevard as a non-traditional Mexican restaurant; when the old gymnasium at the Pine Street School became available in the mid-1990’s, Chef Jeff Cerasaro upped sticks and moved to… Continue Reading →

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Review: Priya Indian Cuisine

Posted on February 11, 2010 by Femme de Joie

It’s Saturday night in Redding and you are sweating bullets: Tonight you have a date with the object of your desires. You’ve done the meet-for-coffee and the safe lunch, caught a matinee showing of Pirates of the Caribbean, Part 16:… Continue Reading →

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Restaurant Review: Pho Saigon

Posted on December 28, 2009 by Femme de Joie

When you travel to other countries, you find that foods that seem completely bizarre to you are just ordinary, everyday dishes to the people of that culture. In Malaysia, for example, curried hard-boiled eggs are a very common Muslim street… Continue Reading →

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Snack Shack

Posted on December 17, 2009 by Femme de Joie

Some places have been around forever, so long that you don’t even notice them any more. They’re just part of the landscape of daily life, like the stop sign, the broken sidewalk, your Uncle Fred. That’s probably why it took… Continue Reading →

Trader Joe’s Sunflower Seed Butter

Posted on November 16, 2009 by Femme de Joie

Amico del Signore bought a jar of Trader Joe’s Sunflower Seed Butter. It’s a delicious alternative to peanut butter on a cracker with a little honey, on a stick of celery, or as a filling in a PB&J for those… Continue Reading →

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5 Thais – The Best Little Restaurant You Haven’t Tried

Posted on November 4, 2009 by Femme de Joie

Even a dedicated consumer of double cheeseburgers needs a break now and then. On a recent drab and drizzly day, M. De Joie was in the mood for a bowl of pho, that Vietnamese soup/meal-in-a-bowl with the healing powers normally… Continue Reading →

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Gene’s Drive-in

Posted on October 19, 2009 by Femme de Joie

Femme de Joie has found people tend to either love Gene’s with a passion or despise it with the hatred usually reserved for memories of high-school-cafeteria tuna-on-a-shingle. She recalls one person who described the onion rings as “made from turnips.”… Continue Reading →

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Not a Grand Buffet

Posted on October 7, 2009 by Femme de Joie

Despite what some people may think, it does not give Femme de Joie pleasure to write negative things about restaurants. Well, perhaps that should come with a qualification: it does not bother her to write negative things about restaurants she… Continue Reading →

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