$10 Deal: This restaurant’s lemongrass beef spices up a hot day
The lemongrass beef lunch special is stir-fried strips of beef and alliums coated in sa te, a spicy lemongrass chili oil. (Joshua Carlucci/Special to The Daily Memphian)
Joshua Carlucci
Joshua Carlucci is a food writer and professional cook from rural Central California. He is a Memphis transplant by way of New Orleans and New York City. He has a bachelor’s in English from UC Berkeley, a culinary diploma from the Institute of Culinary Education and is an MFA candidate in Creative Writing at the University of Memphis. Find more of his work on his website, joshuacarlucci.com
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