Local Cuisine Aficionados Gifts

"But if you leave New Orleans, you'll be just another sandwich."

"M'lady, we’ve reached peak Brooklyn."

We need a new eco project. Ok. Let's get locally grown food into the school cafeteria. What's our strategy? We can start with the potatoes. I'll make the poster. We want home fries.

-'but for a full English breakfast you can't beat Blackpool,sir.'

"They won't even try their palate cleansers!"

Highlights From The Annual Central Park Country Fair

Sustainability files, ways to reduce your carbon footprint

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.

Mom? Eco club is starting a campaign to eat local food. Good idea. Would you please pack me a lunch from organic stuff grown near here? Ok. I'm sure we have something. Thanks! Oh, boy. A beet sandwich.

"And finally the chef's surprise - the check!"

Sushi Train Spotters

As soon as he began speaking Manuel's Spanish accent was unmistakeable and he was evicted from the Local food group.

"Cancel the trip. The cook didn't get a visa."

I am to blame.

'Guys! The turnovers are KILLING us!'

Man on Stilts in a Market

Inappropriate garnish.

'Like it? It's my digital vest, it calculates calories, portions and price per pound!'

'All our family's creativity is channelled into finding ways to gain weight.

"Everywhere you look, there's a rate hike."

'I'll take the rest of this in a doggy bag.'

'Fruits, vegetables, herbs, spices, nuts, berries, roots, tubers, stems, leaves.'

"You'd clean and set tables and make sure that each table hs a salt lick and pepper."

"Rain or shine, me and you can do fondue!" "I'm ready for some yum!"

'This should increase our business.'

'I'll let your people go, but making kosher box lunches for them is out of the question!'

'It's farm-to-table-to-farm dining.'

'Boy, our son is sharp!'

'This week, the secret ingredient on Iron chef is . . . Iron. Good luck, suckas.'

'I don't know what I ordered, but I think it's going to be good!'

Food Fight

"Lobster? Of course, sir - Whom should we notify in case of an emergency?"

"Coco, stop eating your food properly and play with it like your brothers!"

'What do you expect? It's not summer anymore.'

"You're the one who wanted to go someplace off the beaten track - you ask him what's gluten free."