Foodie Curious Gifts

Oysters in June - delicious!

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

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

The Coffee Shop Vats of New Jersey

Nothing like traveling hundreds of miles to immerse yourself in art for the sole purpose of killing time between meals.

'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.

"From right to left, you have your tekkamaki, your futomaki, and then your yamaimo roll. The little pile of pink stuff is ginger, the green one's wasabi. And, of course, you already recognize your vodka martini."

'Is this still America?'

'Personally I can't see anything wrong with GM crops!'

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

"We've misjudged the tapas again."

You're the sizzle in my roast!

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

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

"Your meal sounded nice."

'How was your holiday?' - 'Fantastic! Great weather! Great food! No illness!' - 'So, back to work tomorrow, then?' - 'Yeah, I guess so.' - 'Lousy, germ free holiday.'

"Hey, …. what's not to like?"

"And exactly how is the peanut-butter-and-jelly prepared?"

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

"Who shaves the fennel in your family?"

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

"Yes, he is a celebrity chef, but he doesn't have any opinions on Iraq."

Dad's old fashioned barbeque

"Geoffrey's seasonal. I'm regional."

Thermidor Dali

"Perhaps you wouln't have declared so many places 'worth a detour' if you'd held the map right way up!"

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

"The fish - will it be the market price at the time of ordering, the time of eating or the time of paying?"

Avocado Timeline

"And that's where hot dogs come from."

'Pumpkin pie isn't dessert. It's another vegetable.'

'Are you sure these sprouts aren't GM?.'

"He'd like the broiled monkfish, too, but first he's having a quick taste of the gutter."