Tiramisu, cannoli cake, cream puffs, spumoni cookies. These are just a few of the delectable treats from Pink Box Bakery that you missed if you styed home last Sunday. Pink Box was one of the incredible local food producers featured during A News Cafe’s… Continue Reading
Well good morning, sunshine! A lot of Food For Thought readers have been asking me what to do with the extra zucchini from their gardens. Rumor has it that there is a plethora of zucchini in our area that needs… Continue Reading
Imagine fresh mozzarella, artisan sausage and carmalized onions melding on a thin, perfectly crispy crust inside the warm embrace of a wood-fired oven. Continue Reading
Sometimes I just don’t know when to leave well enough alone. Take my pear dumplings, for example. Please. They were adaptations of a perfectly lovely Apple Dumpling recipe from a Napa cooking class I attended at Copia: American Center for Wine, Food… Continue Reading
Get ready to lick your fingers and smack your lips! Famous Dave’s BBQ has just announced that it will be holding a rib-tasting event in Redding, CA. The rib-tasting event will be held on March 9th from 3:00 p.m. to… Continue Reading
That Peck’s Bad Boy of the Travel Channel, Anthony Bourdain, recently commented in the New York Times that San Francisco is “a two-fisted drinking town, a carnivorous meat-eating town, it’s dirty and nasty and wonderful…” and Femme de Joie would… Continue Reading
We are on a roll! One of my favorite treats for my family has always been cinnamon rolls. My husband started it, years ago, even before we were married. About once a month Westley and I would travel to visit… Continue Reading
Back in the 1960s and ’70s, an unimpressive cinder block building on South Market Street was a liquor store. Later on it became, variously, Asian markets, Chef Paul Trout’s Experience, and now Kanya Garden. Located virtually across the street from… Continue Reading
Even if a restaurant claims “you’re family,” you’re a customer, and they are in business to make a profit. Restaurants are good at separating you from your money: it’s their raison de etre. A severe case of sticker shock upon… Continue Reading
Femme de Joie came late to the less-is-more approach to pizza. For years she enjoyed goopy pile-it-all-on combinations with pounds of cheese, layers of salty meats, a token mushroom to make it healthy, and thick bready crust. Heart attack on… Continue Reading
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