Culinary Economist Mugs

'You owe us a tenner.'

Food Crisis

Beef Prices

'Today the Yuan rose against the pork belly, the chicken beak, the eel, the wanton, and the egg noodle.'

"I like the Businessman's Special. The fortune cookies all have stock futures in them."

"The menu just says fried fish, but may I give you a more compelling, surprisingly lyrical description?"

Recipes from the Jean-Paul Sartre Cookbook

'Muriel's philosophy is that what happens in the kitchen, stays in the kitchen.'

The Origins of Everything

"Being vegan or vegetarian isn't enough anymore. From now on I will only cook stuff I stepped in on the sidewalk."

"OK, duty roster for today: Ken is to scout for entrees, Tim for mains and of course, Tina for desserts..."

"I hope you're not using any of the canned food I so diligently stockpiled.

"As you can guess, Rico is my role model."

Cereal Tasting.

"D'you remember caramel before it all became 'salted?'"

Man with a 'menu', woman with a 'womenu'.

"Steak, Richard, is just grown up veal."

'I'm saving some for leftovers tomorrow.'

I Heart Dinosaurs Chef

Mediterranean Martini

"And it was at the moment I realized that the only thing holding me back from culinary excellence was a bucket-load of butter."

'Yes, but is it tart?'

'It's an acquired taste!'

Empty landscape containing food and stationery.

"I can't remember if I'm off red meat, or eating nothing but red meat."

'A sandwich?'

A Double-Dip Recession with Sprinkles

"Liverwurst is down an eighth, egg-salad is up two and a half, and peanut-butter-and-jelly remains unchanged."

'If I eat three more pieces of meat and three more spoonfuls of peas, I want three puddings after!'

'I'm all for GM food, it's done wonders for my profit margins!'

"I only invest in alternative meat products, so I reject the terms 'Bull' and 'Bear'."

"Look, gourmet popcorn! Harold, our son is a gourmet!"

"Something with enough depth to taste like success to me and shame to him."

Chicago School of Home Economics

"And there it is... Coronation chicken"