Cultural Foods Prints

"Tia Carmen? Is there anything else to eat?"

Night of the Latkes

"So this coffee shop if your 'hangout'?"

'We can order Lebanese, Thai, Italian, Indian, Greek or Chinese...'

"I feel like we are the polyester of dairy products."

Craft Donuts vs. Craft Beer

And then in Italy. . . "But I really don't like bubblegum gelato."

"Can I get this to go in an organic, locally recycled, eco-friendly doggie bag?"

"When I was young, we personally prepared all the food for each and every meal!"

"I don’t know, Margaret. She looks like the type who makes exotic stuffings."

'Fred is a social conservative -- he believes in slow food and heavy beer.'

"I know it’s a challenge, but it needs your input!" "...Your breadth of knowledge of different interest groups, religions...cultures!" "Right, so the staff Christmas meal will be a traditional lacto-vegan one at a Thai restaurant sometime in March?" "Do you think the Pagans will be OK with that?"

Meticulously prepared, locally sourced food served on artifacts of a romanticized industrial past, by people who take their fashion cues from daguerreotypes, to adults whose parents still pay their rent.

'Please, could you me to Polish my diet!'

"Put out the Asian sates, the Russian blinis, and the Mexican bean dips, while whip up something Korean."

'Our chickens are a real 'come back' story: raised organic, they hooked up with some seedy fowl, but then, thankfully, were saved by massive doses of antibiotics.'

"There must be a place we can wait on line for an hour before eating."

"Is it free-range?"

'Are you sure you don't have any Indian blood?.'

Culture clash

'Where do you want to go for breakfast, fancy an Australian or do you want to nip over to Hawaii?'

"All good things must come to an end...unless I use both of my giant-size super-pots."

Lottery - come back to eat here 20 times and you will win million dollar in lottery.

"I just explained 'kugel' to him."

"Your old Jewish mother with some pickled herring, sir. To remind you of your roots,"

"We call it 'dish' of the day, but it's actually served on a plank of wood."

'Snob, he won't eat domestic slugs, just imports.'

'Your tomato ketchup is on it's way, Sir...'

"It was a cold night, like tonight, back, I'd say, in 1954."

"I'll have the crescent-crab 'purses' and the smoked duck 'hash' – hold the quotation marks."

'It's all made by stateless people, wanderers, nomads, whose only anchor is cheese.'

"I'm going to ask for a fork. Don't try to stop me."

Chick in noodle soup.

"They're boulettes de viande. They're meatballs. They're balls of meat."

"The Garlic Escargot Velouté...would you like that in the traditional tureen, or supersized in a bucket?"