Food Culture Lover Gifts

'Your French dip, sir.'

"Yo, Cézanne, paint faster. I need those grapes for the Madeira sauce."

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

Heavy man sees 'Comfort Food' aisle

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

"I chose to stand up to special interest groups!"

"We're odd looking but just as good."

The Coffee Shop Vats of New Jersey

'You realize we're only having three people over...'

"Tia Carmen's not happy unless she can send people away with a plate of leftovers for the road."

Party time.

Craft Donuts vs. Craft Beer

"It was wonderful, Henri. Arnold had died and gone to heaven."

"What time did you say you wanted me to start drinking?"

'Excuse me - are you organic?'

"We've misjudged the tapas again."

'Pepperoni: Muse of Pizza'

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

You're the sizzle in my roast!

"I'll be glad when the television is fixed."

"Your meal sounded nice."

Victorian Fast Food - 'I'll have the lark pie festooned with eels, a full stilton, two bottles of port,,,'

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

'I hope you all like stuffing.'

"The food here is excellent- what time is breakfast?"

"Mom said never use that dirty 4-letter word on vacation...DIET."

'I decided to start buying food in bulk. I hope you're hungry!'

Thermidor Dali

'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.'

Dad's old fashioned barbeque

"This crew gets 15 miles to the pound of gruel. They're very fuel efficient."

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.

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