Food Trend Enthusiast Gifts

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

Weird shaped bread and a French baguette.

"It's kohlrabi, the next hot vegetable."

"Where do we put Desserts?"

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

"You said the cauliflower is locally grown – would you elaborate?"

La Table

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

"Our fresh seasonal hand-crafted brews contain a full serving of spring vegetables."

"Mom, I'm at work – let me call you back after I finish stocking milk for wealthy vegans who like beet juice in their meat alternatives so they can still get that bloody effect when cooking without guilt."

"Everything taste so divinely artisanal."

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

See you at the farmers market!

"Is the MSG local?"

Queen of Quinoa

We are shaped by what we love! Especially pizza and doughnuts!

The Coffee Shop Vats of New Jersey

All Natural Nothing

Party time.

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

"You ordered the organic, unprocessed, whole wheat spaghetti?"

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

"We've misjudged the tapas again."

Happy Surrogate Thanksgiving

Spontaneous Kombucha

"I always end up buying way more black-truffle honey than I intended."

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

You're the sizzle in my roast!

"Your meal sounded nice."

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

"For the first half hour, I was, like, really there. Enchanted. But I found the wild-quail confit so disappointing that not even the fig reduction on the poached pear could get me back."

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

Dad's old fashioned barbeque

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

"The special is… pine nut encrusted… filet of salmon… in a balsamic wine reduction."