{"id":79233,"date":"2019-08-30T16:22:36","date_gmt":"2019-08-30T21:22:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/?p=79233"},"modified":"2019-08-30T13:38:36","modified_gmt":"2019-08-30T18:38:36","slug":"oxford-food-favorites-15-under-15-pt-4-tarasque-cucina","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/oxford-food-favorites-15-under-15-pt-4-tarasque-cucina\/","title":{"rendered":"Oxford Food Favorites: 15 Under $15, pt. 4: Tarasque Cucina"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>After living in <strong>Oxford, Mississippi<\/strong>, for almost 14 years, it can sometimes feel like I\u2019ve exhausted everything our town has to offer\u2014especially on the culinary scene. I\u2019ve worked in special events for over six years and in the food service industry directly and indirectly during that time, but food has remained a personal and professional passion. I have compiled for the new-to-Oxford and the settled some inside scoop of 15 food bites for under $15, making living deliciously more affordable than ever.   <\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><em>For the Necessity of Comfort Food<\/em><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Tarasque Cucina <\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-color has-very-dark-gray-color\">Tarasque is my favorite pasta in North Mississippi. Maybe it\u2019s because the food has been carefully crafted with love, maybe it\u2019s the exquisite chef tastings, maybe it\u2019s the $9\u201314 pasta entrees and lemon vin and garbanzo bean spinach salad . . . but I\u2019d have to guess it\u2019s the <strong>Lauren<\/strong> hugs and <strong>John Stokes<\/strong> jokes accompanying each <a>pickup that make this place so special<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"25\" height=\"16\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/TheLocalVoiceLigature-25web.jpg?resize=25%2C16\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-14544\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n<p><br>\n<br>\n<!--StartFragment--><\/p>\n\n\n<p><strong><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"Tarasque's Website (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tarasque.net\/home-tarasque\" target=\"_blank\">Tarasque&#8217;s Website<\/a><\/strong><br><strong><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"Tarasque's  Facebook (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/the.tarasque\/\" target=\"_blank\">Tarasque&#8217;s<\/a><\/strong><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"Tarasque's  Facebook (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/the.tarasque\/\" target=\"_blank\">  <\/a><strong><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"Tarasque's  Facebook (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/the.tarasque\/\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook<\/a><\/strong><br><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/the_tarasque\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"Tarasque's  Twitter (opens in a new tab)\">Tarasque&#8217;s<\/a><\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/the_tarasque\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"Tarasque's  Twitter (opens in a new tab)\"> <\/a><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/the_tarasque\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"Tarasque's  Twitter (opens in a new tab)\"> Twitter<\/a><\/strong><br><strong><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"Tarasque's  Instagram (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/the_tarasque\/\" target=\"_blank\">Tarasque&#8217;s<\/a><\/strong><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"Tarasque's  Instagram (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/the_tarasque\/\" target=\"_blank\">  <\/a><strong><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"Tarasque's  Instagram (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/the_tarasque\/\" target=\"_blank\">Instagram<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em><strong>Editor&#8217;s Note:<\/strong> This article was originally printed in it&#8217;s entirety in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/subscribe-to-the-local-voice-weekly-dispatch\/\">The Local Voice #334<\/a>. The web series focuses on each individual businesses.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/scontent-dfw5-2.xx.fbcdn.net\/v\/t1.0-9\/69569156_3252114738162723_4266455198555176960_n.jpg?_nc_cat=103&amp;_nc_oc=AQki9gh7oY4mm_BevQgAu2aDlc4QGKOTAxZX4LJlQgjTVrSkwER3U0GKVfmoLYitqCI&amp;_nc_ht=scontent-dfw5-2.xx&amp;oh=2258e279452cd8ae6b1273d4ca4475a6&amp;oe=5DCEB59C\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/scontent-dfw5-2.xx.fbcdn.net\/v\/t1.0-9\/68678223_3237372409636956_1010109572817354752_n.jpg?_nc_cat=110&amp;_nc_oc=AQniC6eD1_FK54jQDAn9Ww4Q3af2fTQsoK5-5Qv9vZ-LFkTHZtRmnDfriE5SzJ_ENAo&amp;_nc_ht=scontent-dfw5-2.xx&amp;oh=a7a29db1e8a0f1eb9d8ae49ea2f490ae&amp;oe=5DCC1ED2\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/scontent-dfw5-2.xx.fbcdn.net\/v\/t1.0-9\/67624975_3180814591959405_8621834117266276352_n.jpg?_nc_cat=110&amp;_nc_oc=AQkfjKORySWQYBlSFhEoVlN19CUiWdOgud0BbGglOikAvL1DSBEGD3cY35oWy27jtsc&amp;_nc_ht=scontent-dfw5-2.xx&amp;oh=fdee4a7105c58501db727b51645d6ce5&amp;oe=5DFE80E8\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/scontent-dfw5-2.xx.fbcdn.net\/v\/t1.0-9\/67937595_3188831101157754_586012501871689728_n.jpg?_nc_cat=100&amp;_nc_oc=AQnuW5QSVudF41XUj88ODzp3W1707xd8MtB9wl7KragqZYjr6P-IwAYlr73B-qUjsJ4&amp;_nc_ht=scontent-dfw5-2.xx&amp;oh=8a11f93b2ea6f4c95442365a431948a4&amp;oe=5E044316\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/scontent-dfw5-2.xx.fbcdn.net\/v\/t1.0-9\/69360011_3257805540926976_1024752714057252864_n.jpg?_nc_cat=110&amp;_nc_oc=AQnS8m-j41htQfNbNx3FOhq3qol-lJCscuSklMrjA_NfL1K_BDNJ5JSKw4CTi9dckxw&amp;_nc_ht=scontent-dfw5-2.xx&amp;oh=18ed4ec151b5038f1bff7c5ffe423633&amp;oe=5E0A35E2\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/scontent-dfw5-2.xx.fbcdn.net\/v\/t1.0-9\/26907847_2047671741940368_3751750634576647625_n.jpg?_nc_cat=101&amp;_nc_oc=AQkK9QZC8Tr2gQgcHaCopMexHnpZkfacEv5TZOFpPNU3xqIh2we6iOkGeSR5lI7HGrc&amp;_nc_ht=scontent-dfw5-2.xx&amp;oh=b5a04f4e72f4ce84b0c45ba689625b9e&amp;oe=5E1350B6\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After living in Oxford, Mississippi, for almost 14 years, it can sometimes feel like I\u2019ve exhausted everything our<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1009,"featured_media":79234,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[68],"tags":[2383,4,15148],"class_list":["post-79233","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-food","tag-john-stokes","tag-oxford","tag-seasonal"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/2019-08-30-Tarasque-15-Under-15.jpg?fit=620%2C349&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79233","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1009"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=79233"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79233\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/79234"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79233"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79233"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79233"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}