Culture And Cuisine Pillows

"Well I don't like frozen bread. I come from a culture of soft bread. Yours are hard-breaded people."

"Thanks to the Oscars, we're going to be the hottest finger food this season."

Counting ribs

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

"Rump roast?"

Heavy man sees 'Comfort Food' aisle

"Oh, look- French! Let's try it."

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

"Do you want to be vaguely dissatisfied with Italian or Korean?"

Queen of Quinoa

"Yo - I'm way overdone in here!"

"I'll have the spaghetti, does that come on toast?"

Craft Donuts vs. Craft Beer

Grand Escargot at a Parisian Eatery.

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

"How's the salmon?"

The Perfect Foil

"What's happened to Quiche?"

"The bagels are better in New York."

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

'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.'

"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?'

"I just explained 'kugel' to him."

'Come on, eat your spinach.' -' Sorry, I'm on a special diet...No toxic waste.'

'You made me jump.'

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