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redandfranticfeelings · 7 months

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i wrote a bob's burgers fanfic about bob helping louise overcome jitters on her wedding night

inspired by a quote in "poops i didn't do it again," ao3 link will be in replies

Between his racing thoughts and Linda’s restless legs, Bob already wasn’t sleeping too well. So when his humming phone made the bedside table vibrate, he was relatively quick to respond.

“Hello?” he groggily answered.

“Daaaaad!”

Of course he’d know that chipper voice anywhere.

“Louise?” Bob sat up as fast as he could without making himself dizzy. “Is everything okay?”

The last time he’d seen his youngest daughter, she had demanded that none of her family members call her unless someone was dying – “and even then, they better be bleeding or suffocating.” She and Rudy had a morning flight to San Francisco, and knowing how carefully they’d saved for both the wedding and the honeymoon, Bob had taken her instruction seriously. But now she was calling him?

“Oh, it’s better than okay!” She sounded happy, but he couldn’t be too sure. She’d put this same cheery voice on when trying to cut a deal with a customer she wanted to strangle. “Rudy was hungry, so I walked down to this sushi place we’d read about – Sushi Stay or Sushi Go? Yeah, turns out they have a bunch of authentic Japanese cookware here.”

“Oh, really?” Bob rubbed his eyes open.

“Yeah! And it’s all discounted because it’s been slightly used, which is enough to make it basically worthless to rich chefs. I think I even saw a Fukinawa knife.”

“You’re kidding. A real Fukinawa knife?”

“Eyeballing it, I can’t be sure if it’s the real deal, but they just sliced an albacore in mid-air with it, so it’ll put asses in seats anyway. I’m sure you’ll clock it better than I can.”

Bob eased himself up onto the floor. “Where even is this place? You said it’s called… Sushi Stay? Sushi Go?”

“No, no. Sushi Stay or Sushi Go. One phrase. It’s like, right by our hotel. It’s open 24 hours. Big neon sign. You can’t miss it.”

“Alright, Louise. I’ll come check it out.”

As Bob sauntered over to get his coat, his wife began to stir as well. “Wussup, Bobby?” she yawned, not sitting up quite yet.

“Louise called.”

“Oh, is she okay?” Linda yawned, still winded from the reception. “Rudy ain’t already giving her a hard time, is he?”

“No, it’s fine.” Bob pulled his coat over his pajamas and stuffed his feet into his clogs. “It’s just… business stuff. Just a restaurant she wanted to show me before she left.”

“Okay, little night owls.” Linda settled back into her pillow. “Just don’t sleep all morning. Unless I do. Then don’t bother me.” She fell back asleep quickly.

Bob walked to his car, more anxious than ever. There was no Fukinawa knife, and he knew it. And honestly, Louise probably knew he knew it.

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He already knew the route to Louise’s hotel, so finding the sushi place was pretty easy. It was well-lit, and through the glass, he could see their sole customer sitting up at the counter.

She still wore her wedding dress – well, more of a tuxedo-dress, with the skirt tattered like some kind of corpse bride. Her hair was still down, her idea of having anything “fancy” done with it, because she’d refuted all of Jocelyn’s offers to style it pro-bono. And of course, she had the pink beanie-turned-bandana tied around her head. There was no food in front of her, and as far as Bob could tell, no to-go box for Rudy.

Bob parked in a free spot and opened the door. Louise’s head turned when she heard the bell ring. “Ooooh, you just missed the salesguy.” She put on a facade of frustration. “He needed to get back to Japan for an expo in the morning, so he couldn’t wait up. Sorry.”

“It’s fine. I actually don’t have cash, anyway.” Bob took the stool next to his daughter. He noticed, on either side of him, little papers folded to look like fish and seaweed. He picked up a tiny origami fish. “These are cute.”

“Yeah, I think the owner’s kid made them, so he put them out front to cultivate this beachy aesthetic. He said we can take a couple home, the kid’s always making more anyway.” She scoffed. “Child labor, am I right?”

Bob curiously unfolded part of the fish, then immediately regretted it as he had no idea how to replicate all those seamless creases, and his re-folding attempts only seemed to mutilate it further.

“Great going, father,” Louise snarked. “You’re killing endangered marine life.”

“It’s too many creases. Here, you try it.” He handed the crumpled paper square to his daughter. “You know… paper. Better than I do.”

Having spent most of middle school turning red-marked assignments into paper masterpieces, and generally having younger and nimbler hands than her father, Louise re-folded the fish without hesitation. “Wow,” Bob remarked.

“I wonder if origami would suit our place,” Louise mused, making the fish swim through the air. “We hang little paper burgers everywhere or something. Maybe it’ll make us look quote-unquote cultured.”

“I don’t know,” Bob said, giving the same response he always gave Louise’s business ideas. “Half the time we redecorate the restaurant, people get freaked out. Or think we’re haunted. Or a…gay bar? That one time?”

“You’re right. Let’s think bigger. We’ll print our menus bilingually. And every hour, we’ll perform the 2.5D Burobu musical I wrote with Gene in high school. Full love scene included.”

Bob shook his head, giving a very small chuckle. Louise had spent most of her adulthood as his business consultant humbling him, and it had mostly paid off. It seemed she had a new marketing idea every week, and though it wasn’t without some serious costs (“Who cares about the wind? I nearly lost a foot getting these fireworks across the border!”), it definitely drew far more positive attention to the restaurant than they’d gotten in the past two decades. They weren’t booming, but they always had someone curious about the Burger of the Day they’d seen out front (after Louise suggested that, Bob had a week-long crisis about how stupid he’d been for not doing it sooner) and the somewhat unsettling chalk drawing that accompanied it.

“How about we meet in the middle?” He cracked a smile. “You and Rudy can hang up some of your old puppets.”

Something about that drained all the pride from Louise’s face. “Yeah, me and Rudy can do a lot of things now,” she mumbled, focusing narrowly on her paper fish.

Fatherly concern struck Bob once again. “Okay, Louise.” He knew he couldn’t put this off any further. “What are you doing down here in the middle of the night? In your dress?”

She scoffed. “What, a woman can’t swing by a 24-hour sushi place and take in the sights the night before her honeymoon?”

“I mean you can, it’s just… I figured you’d want to be with Rudy tonight. You both seemed pretty excited.”

“Yeah yeah, we were super excited! It’s San Francisco is as close to a trip to Tokyo as I'll ever get! But, uh, well…” Her phony enthusiasm began to falter. “I think we might need to postpone the trip.”

“What?” Bob exclaimed. “Louise, you and Rudy have been saving to go to California for months.” He swore he saw her eye twitch.

“I don’t know…” Her eyes darted around the room. “The weather might be unpleasant? We’ll be sweating our asses off, and you know how easy Rudy burns. Honestly, June weddings are so overrated.” She chuckled, and it was clear she was running out of lies.

“Louise.” Bob made direct eye contact with his daughter – something both of them hated to do.

Louise scoffed and fidgeted for a few more moments, but when she couldn’t dig up any more excuses, she just groaned. “I don’t want a honeymoon, Dad!”

“What changed?”

“Oh, nothing much, just this little thing where I had to declare in front of my entire family that I’d be devoted to one man for the rest of my life.”

“Well, you love Rudy, right?” Bob felt a bit jittery. Louise and Rudy had been dating for nearly a decade before their engagement, so he couldn’t imagine her feeling rushed.

“Of course I do.” There was a softness in her eyes that always emerged when she spoke about Rudy. “He’s like, the nicest person in the world. And when I was looking right at him, telling him I loved him, I really wanted him to know that. I felt that.” She sighed. “But like… everyone else was saying things that just drove me crazy.”

“Like?”

“‘Congrats to you and Rudy.’ ‘You two will have such a great future.’ ‘You look great together.’” She scowled with every sentence. “It’s like I didn’t exist. I just became half of some… Rudy-and-Louise love monster. And when we got to the hotel, he kept introducing me as ‘my wife’ to everyone there.”

“That’s kind of sweet,” Bob said, and he meant it, but his tone didn’t quite convey it.

"Dad." Now she looked her father right in the eyes. "This one little kid in the lobby started calling me ‘My Wife Louise’.”

“Oh. Oh my god.”

“Yeah. Getting back to our room after all that did not exactly put me in a honeymoon mood. He even called room service to order champagne for ‘him and his wife.’ Fuck, how do other newlyweds hear that all day and still jump each other’s bones?” She gripped her dress like she wanted to tear it right off. “You're basically half-people now, so you’re half as sexy too.”

“Mmm.” Understandably, Bob didn’t really want to think about Louise and Rudy like that.

Now that she’d gotten that off her chest, she tried, awkwardly, to revert to her casual arrogance. “Anyway, I was gonna tell him you had an emergency and I couldn’t go to San Francisco with him. But you know I can’t lie to him. So I just wrote my feelings in a note, left it by his bedside while he’s sleeping off the liquor, and I’ll hitch a ride home with you to stay at the apartment. We’ll figure things out in the morning, or whatever.”

“Oh my god. Louise, no.” Bob felt so bad for his daughter, but he knew this was the wrong move. “You can’t just run off. Not after all this.”

“Relaaaaax!” She tried to wave him off. “I’ll still be married to him, legally. I just can’t do all that coupley shit right now. We can consummate our marriage and all that shit in a few months. And I’m not wasting the plane ticket, I’ll just pawn it or haggle for a different day. I’m a great haggler.”

“Still. It’s not fair to Rudy.”

“I know it’s not fair to Rudy!” Louise cried out, startling the chefs working in the kitchen. “I just can’t see any other option. I just know if I go on that trip with him, I’ll spend the whole time feeling like… ‘wife Louise,’ not normal Louise. And I can’t risk turning into that forever. I’m not Tina.”

“You won’t turn into Tina. Also, being Tina isn’t a bad thing.”

“Being Tina, I could survive – barely. Being wife Tina is my fucking nightmare.”

As much as Bob wanted to argue with that, seeing his son-in-law still made him inexplicably twitchy, and the way Tina spoke so fondly of him sounded like a foreign language. He only really understood it when he saw them with his granddaughter.

“But what sucks the most is that I know he’ll figure that out. I know he’ll know I’m upset, and he’ll think it’s because of him. I need him to know it’s not his fault. I’m just not good at being a wife. And I wish I knew that before we got married, because he’s been so terrified I’m gonna leave him for good. So I can’t tell him how fucked up I am to his face, but I can’t lie to him either.”

Louise swatted the fish off the counter, onto the floor, and slumped onto the counter. Bob got off the stool, bent down very carefully, and picked it back up.

“You know, your mother and I didn’t have a honeymoon on our wedding night.”

“Dad, I’ve seen the pictures. You barely had a wedding.”

“True. We’re not really… good at romance. I mean, your mother is. She’s really into it.”

“This to the girl who just endured an eight-minute musical wedding toast. Preaching to the choir, Dad.”

Bob chuckled. Linda had spent months workshopping that, and what she sang at the reception wasn’t even half of what she’d written. “My point is, I didn’t think I’d be good at being a husband. And maybe I’m not, to some people. Your mother usually thinks I am. But I guess everyone has a different idea of what a married couple should be. We're not all like Tina and Daniel. I mean, I love your mother, but if I did everything she wanted us to do, I’d be… really tired. All the time.”

“You would be?” Louise was smiling again.

“Hey, cut me some slack. It’s the middle of the night. Plus I just had to bend down.” He placed the fish back in front of Louise. “But you and Rudy can have fun together and still be your own people. Like, he can do his magic, and you can do your… delightfully creepy blackboard drawings.”

“You make my job sound like my only hobby. You make my life sound sad.”

“Mmm. And then both of you can do your puppet shows and anime conventions and hikes and stuff. And you don’t have to hold yourself back.”

“I kind of do. Rudy can’t walk too far without losing his breath.”

“I mean you don’t have to stop being Louise. You’re just…” He glanced down at the paper fish. “The same Louise, in a different shape.”

Louise ran her thumb along the creases. The paper had some awkward creases from being folded and unfolded, but they knew it was a fish. Just like Bob still knew she was Louise.

“Geez,” she scoffed, “if you’re gonna use them for corny metaphors, maybe we’ll ditch the origami idea.” She passed the fish to her dad. “Here. I hear some customers use these as tips in Japan. Consider it a tip for some good fatherly advice.”

“Honestly, I prefer being tipped with money.”

“Oh, hard agree.”

“But… coming from my daughter, it means a lot.”

The bride finally scooted off the stool. “Welp, I better get back to my hotel. I got a marital bed to sneak back into.”

“You should destroy that note.”

“Totally. It’ll feel good.” Louise held out her hand to help her aging father to his feet. “You know, the sashimi here isn’t even worth taking home to him. They need that cutesy beginner's origami more than we ever will.”

Louise held onto Bob all the way to his car, and he held the strands of her dress to ensure neither of them would trip. He sat in the driver’s seat and watched her walk back home for a few minutes, but he definitely wouldn’t follow her. After all, she was an independent woman.

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Rudy Belcher was out like a light, still wearing everything from the wedding except his blazer and one shoe, which were draped over a chair. He looked so delicate, even as he snored up a storm. Louise always listened carefully as she fell asleep to make sure he didn’t choke.

As she undressed and crawled into bed, Louise carefully took the folded-up note from the bedside table. She quietly unfolded it, scrunched up her nose at the curt writing, then re-folded it into a paper fish and placed it under her pillow before wrapping her arm around Rudy.

Maybe in the morning before boarding, she’d throw it onto the runway and hope that it’d swim into a jet engine.

Or just rip it up like a normal person.

But that wouldn’t be very Louise of her, would it?

#bobs burgers #louise belcher #bob belcher #rudy x louise #bobs burgers fanfiction #my fic

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toosmallformyowngood · 2 years

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Me and the mutuals (we are hanging out)

@eddiemunsonscumsok ❤️

@sparklehoard

@albacore-fish-or-aesthetic

@bootlegmothman420

#doodles #sort of a shitpost?

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hypernixation · 1 year

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tuna fish aesthetic call that albacore

#nix.txt

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thegardengrows-infrozenrain · 2 years

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new aesthetic: fish

call that albacore

#fish #tuna #pun #joke #funny

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stelashe · 3 years

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okokok what's the fish's favourite tumblr aesthetic? .... albacore

Ok i had to look up what an albacore was but good one 😂😅

#i think we call it yellow fins here or something

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naturopathycanada · 3 years

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13 Natural Remedies That May Help Slow Down Aging

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Water

Considering our body is composed of nearly 60 percent of right stuff, it seems good sense that alcohol consumption adequate water might boost our life span. "Drinking ample water to remain moisturized helps help in digestion by keeping our intestine damp and moisturized, may helping our bodies lug nourishment to our cells, in addition to in the ridding of waste products," says Barbara Happiness Jones, DO, Gwinnett Medical Center-affiliated medical professional. "Aesthetically, it helps maintain our skin looking like a fresh grape versus a dried raisin." Discover more concerning the benefits of drinking water. Some brands of mineral water even use magnesium, calcium, and also phosphate.

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Turmeric extract

This gold ancient seasoning that gives curry its yellow shade has a multitude of anti-aging benefits, mainly anti-inflammatory and antioxidant protective benefits. "The active component, a substance called curcumin, has actually been located to avoid cognitive decrease," says David Friedman, ND, DC, doctor of naturopathy, medical nutritional expert, as well as chiropractic doctor. To put it simply, if you intend to have a sharp mind with the years, take turmeric. Yet that's not all, Dr. Friedman explains: Studies also reveal turmeric to be useful in reversing many of the persistent ailments associated with maturing like cardiovascular disease, Alzheimer's and diabetes . This is what takes place when you eat a lot more turmeric.

Vitamin D

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Omega-3 fatty acids

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Eco-friendly tea

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Dark delicious chocolate

Probably the most appealing all-natural anti-aging solution, dark delicious chocolate might keep you young thanks to its rich antioxidant material. One research study from the British Journal of Medical Pharmacology showed antioxidants in dark delicious chocolate-- primarily flavonoids-- shield the brain from age-related cognitive decrease. What's more, Dr. Friedman notes, eating dark chocolate routinely may have favorable results on the skin by minimizing face wrinkles, assisting secure against sun exposure, and enhancing skin flexibility. Learn more about the health and wellness benefits of dark delicious chocolate.

Blueberries

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CBD oil

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Grapeseed oil

This oil, a result of wine-making, additionally acts as an anti-aging remedy, according to Dr. Rose. "Utilized topically, grapeseed oil may enhance hair strands when added to your regular hair conditioning program as well as it may likewise be used as a natural makeup cleaner, which will likewise help reduce the appearance of fine lines as a result of its extraordinary antioxidant residential or commercial properties," she says. "Grapeseed oil is rich in vitamin E, a vitamin and antioxidant understood to be valuable for the avoidance of heart problem, mainly when it's eaten as food." She suggests utilizing it straight or including a few declines to your favored cream or including a tsp to a facial mask of ripe avocados. These are the most cooking oils to use for each kind of meal.

Yucca root

This root vegetable that's native to subtropical environments, primarily South America, is abundant in carbohydrates and acts as an exceptional source of fiber, vitamin C, potassium, and folate (an important nutrient for expecting females). It additionally happens to aid with creaking joints, an indicator of arthritis. "Arthritis, like numerous diseases, is inflammation-related, and yucca origin essence takes place to be an ancient natural treatment for swelling," says Dr. Anderson. "Yucca is a very good resource of saponins, which might have anti-arthritic residential or commercial properties by subduing digestive protozoa which may have a role in joint swelling." Next: These are the 13 foods you need to never ever, ever before eat raw.

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zillowcondo · 7 years

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The French Market: Bend’s Friendly, French Dining Destination

Nestled into the Old Bend neighborhood amongst the many cottage bungalows and historic estate grand mansions of their time, originally owned by the mill owners who founded this young, now booming tourist town is a new dining destination for lovers of French and western European cuisine.

The French Market opened its doors this past June, and I couldn’t sit down in one of their classic bistro chairs quickly enough. First exploring their lunch and then having let the hours fly by during two memorable dinners with friends during the warm summer evenings, each experience has offered a warm welcome, ease afforded to simply enjoy the food, the ambiance and the leisurely pace of an everyday ritual elevated to a moment to savor either solitarily or amongst companions.

The owners, Judith and Philip Lipton purchased the property in 2016 and took on a remodel of the once Riverside neighborhood market. Having spoken to residence in the neighborhood who are now frequent patrons of the new establishment, they comment on the entirely different aesthetic and quiet, yet welcoming atmosphere The French Market has brought with their seasonal fare.

It was during my second visit to the restaurant with two good friends visiting from out-of-town that I had the opportunity to first meet both Phil and his wife Judith. With a bottle of recommended red wine in hand, Phil stopped by to offer a taste test (and then the bottle), and stayed to share the story of how he and Judith chose the town of Bend to open one of more than few restaurants they have managed. Their responses are in the conversation below, but quite simply, their answer was what I was hoping to find when I moved to Bend in the food culture but couldn’t until they arrived. They filled a culinary niche that had not yet been touched. So while yes, Bend is known for its many breweries (22 as of this posting), now it has a culinary destination as akin as I have found in Oregon to sitting down in a small town in Europe amongst the quiet chatter of familiar faces and passers-through whilst sipping wine from France, nibbling on Tete de Moin from Switzerland and savoring handmade pasta with fresh chorizo, Manchego, lemon and greens inspired by the likes of Italy.

With an ever-changing menu inspired by the seasons, as well as using freshly grown vegetables and herbs in their adjacent garden, each meal, serving sizes to satiate as the food is delectable and mouth-watering but properly proportioned so there will no need for a doggie bag (the perfect French approach as was discussed in today’s interview on the podcast with Géraldine Lepere), was enjoyed from the charcuterie & cheese platter full of French pate, Spanish chorizo and buttery Emmental cheese to the main courses ranging from Roasted Pork Tenderloin with radish salsa and fried fennel to the farro salad with avocado and poached egg and Grilled Albacore topped with crème fraîche and nigella seed with cherry tomatoes. But I cannot neglect to ogle over their ricotta mousse (which I talked about earlier in this post), which is an unexpectedly most perfectly decadent, yet refreshing selection to complete your evening at the market.

Composing an environment that is both fundamentally about good food, but offers guests a full experience is something that comes with expertise and time being around lovers of food, jovial conversation and a wide variety of cultures. Judith and Philip have succeeded in creating a symphony, and below you’ll discover how it came to be.

Discover what Judith appreciates about the power of a delicious, well-prepared meal, the next French-inspired book I will be reading thanks to Phil’s most recently read book, a glimpse into their love story and much more. It is my pleasure to introduce TSLL readers to the owners of The French Market, partners in life and in business, Philip and Judith Lipton:

1. The French Market, in name, evokes a feeling of a sophisticated, delicious, casual locale. Being nestled into a historic neighborhood in Bend, what was it about the location and the city of Bend that sparked the decision to open a restaurant here?

We thought this existing restaurant would be welcomed by the neighborhood if it reflected their taste and lifestyle. People in Bend are more sophisticated. They have traveled all over the world. They are adventuresome eaters. We wanted to serve them the kind of dishes they ordered in Europe. With the right food and ambiance, they can relive that experience and create a their own sense of adventure. Just as each village or neighborhood in France has a café the residents can walk to, we felt the Old Bend neighborhood would welcome its own special eatery.

2. The cuisine available to patrons at The French Market is inspired by the offerings in southern France and northern Spain. What is one of your favorite dishes on the menu currently?

Phil: The scallop carpaccio is my favorite. But the season ends in a week. Another favorite is the eggplant prepared like baba ganoush.

Judith: My favorite entrée is the Roasted duck breast, and the Summer vegetable caponata is my favorite small plate.

3. When did you begin to fall in love with cuisine and cooking, and what about this world of how and what one eats spoke to you?

Phil: God bless my Mother. He forgot to bless her cooking. I got interested in cooking as a matter of survival. I was soon charmed by Julia Child’s cooking show. It seemed like magic to me yet so complicated that I was afraid to try. I screwed up my courage one day and made a quiche. It went over at the family dinner. I have not looked back.

I met Judy at a ski house in Squaw Valley. Over the group meals at the house, I learned she was the chef at her restaurant in San Francisco. It was a shared interest! We talked about recipes and restaurants. After a trip to Paris, I asked her how to create a dish that I had enjoyed there. The first time Judy had dinner at my apartment was the evening she came over and showed me how to prepare the dish. Not that it matters, but the dish was four kinds of fish fillets. The magic was the sauce. Fish fumet is added to beaten egg whites and flying fish roe was added at the very end. Pleasing to the the eye and the palate.

Judith: I grew up in a family of citrus ranchers. Eating just-picked fruit and vegetables was a way of life, and mealtimes were sacrosanct. My grandmothers and my mother and aunts were all fabulous cooks, so I learned from the best. Then when I was 20 years old, I had a boyfriend give me a Gourmet (magazine) cookbook. I was off and running, delighting in the wonderful world of French cooking.

4. Judith, you have co-owned eight restaurants and catering companies in both San Francisco and Napa Valley. What were some of the most valuable insights you learned about food and people during your experience?

I learned that when presented with fresh, well-prepared food, no matter if it was at a formal dinner or at a picnic on the beach, people would begin to unwind, to start to connect with one another. A bite of a fresh, home-grown tomato can transport you back to your childhood. Well-prepared fresh vegetables can convert even the most died-in-the-wool vegetable hater who grew up on canned or overcooked vegetables. Grumpy people can be smiling by the end of a delicious meal.

5. Many of our readers are Francophiles, most of which visit but do not live in France. You two have lived in France for two years, as well as Spain for three. What did you most enjoy about living in Europe and what ways of life have you brought with you to your new life in Bend?

You know, Shannon, people write books to answer this question. Over a bottle of wine and some local boar meat salami, I would talk about what it is like to be the immigrant. We are the outsiders. We did not speak the language. We did not know the customs, the rules that every body else observes. Strangers showed us great kindness.

Sticking to food, there are supermarkets just like here. What is special are the village markets. Our town closes off the center to vehicles so the farmers can set up their stalls. There stalls of fresh produce, breads, wines, cheeses, meats, olives and so on. One of my passions is for the cheeses. We may never have the raw milk cheese permitted in the US. The production is so small for the farmer’s cheeses that they do not get exported. Nor do they have the shelf life to stand up to the transportation time. You have to go there to enjoy them.

6. Having had the opportunity to dine at The French Market a couple of times (once for lunch and once for dinner), I appreciated immensely how the wait-staff enabled guests to sit, savor and talk. In so doing, we lost all track of time and ended up having the most memorable experience from appetizer to dessert. In so many American restaurants, there is a hurry for turn-over. What other details, along with the wait-staff’s attention, do you find makes for the best dining experience?

It’s important to us that each diner has the option to sit, relax, and enjoy his or her meal in a pleasant environment, along with having the opportunity to enjoy their dining companions. While in Europe, we learned that the history of the word “companion” comes from “con”, meaning “with”, and “pan”, meaning “bread.” Thus a companion is someone with whom you shared your bread.

7. What is a restaurant, bistro or café you love to visit when you return to France/Spain?

In France, we love to go to the local town crêperie, called Le Sarrisan. The crêpes are delicious! In Spain, one of our go-to restaurants is Mirabé, located in Barcelona on the side of Tibidabo. It not only serves wonderful and delicious Catalan dishes, but offers a fabulous vista overlooking the entire city.

8. What is something you are excited about that diners can expect in the coming months at The French Market?

This fall, we are excited to offer monthly pre-fixe dinners, each of which will pair special wines with a unique and delicious menu. We also will be hosting Meet-the-Winemaker dinners.

Below are a few rapid-fire questions to let readers get to know you a bit more:

9. Most memorable meal (what & where): The Tasting Menu at the restaurant Le Taillevent, Paris

10. Favorite music – Gypsy jazz – Django Reinhart

11. Wine or cocktail – Wine

12. Most underestimated food item – Eggs – they’re so versatile!

13. Favorite food to eat/cook with – Anything picked from the garden

14. Butter or Olive Oil – both!

15. Most recent book read:

Judith: Labyrinth, by Kate Mosse

Phil:From Here You Can’t See Paris, by Michael S. Sanders

16. A Bend destination or activity you love – Bike riding/hiking on Phil’s Trail

17. Best life advice – Follow your passion

18. Favorite simple everyday pleasure – Relaxing at the end of day with a great glass of wine or Armagnac

I want to thank Judith, Phil and their staff for the warm welcome into the restaurant and providing an experience what was most memorable for myself as well as my guests.

I want to conclude by sharing a snapshot of a moment I won’t soon forget. In the dining occasion discussed above, after three hours of conversation, debate and laughter with my guests over a meal that spanned three courses, Phil returned to our table with a bottle Brandy from Portland, Oregon’s own Clear Creek Distillery and three delicate aperitif glasses. Punctuating our evening with such a greathearted gesture, we toasted in gratitude and exchanged bisous before departing with our appetites satiated and minds and memories given something sweet to savor. (a picture captured at the tail-end of that evening is below)

~the transparent refrigerator for the kitchen is seen in the dining area which provides a uniquely market aesthetic, all the while providing structure for the chefs to work their magic.~

~outdoor patio dining~

The French Market

Hours: Wednesday – Sunday, 11am – 9pm

Reservations recommended for dinner

Patio seating, first come first serve

(541) 241-2926

285 NW Riverside Blvd Bend, Oregon, OR 97703

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