Local Eater Gifts

'I invest globally, but eat foods grown locally - so that gives my life balance.'

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

"This place is one of New York's best-kept secrets."

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.

Big Tex Silver Saddle Restaurant advertises 'BBQ, $10, Chatter in a Vanishing Regional Dialect $1.00 Extra.'

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

"Is the MSG local?"

A corner market is taken over by suburban sprawl.

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

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.

As I say, local produce, locally produced; all our meats tonight come form our local meat processing plant.

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.

"Waiter, can you find out if this hair in my arugula salad is locally harvested?"

'Tropical fruit, imported cheese, coconuts...I'm not really into that 'eat locally' stuff.'

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

"Are you mad with us, Mrs. Bimmelman?"

"Say it with Pierogies"

(Direct to the Consumer)

'It's all local, except for the fish. They're from the ocean.'

Man on Stilts in a Market

'I think we should eat out in the hotel tomorrow dear.'

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

'This should increase our business.'

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

''Pop'? In my part of the country they're called a 'Soda-Tart'.'

Food Fight

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

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

'Is it local?'

"I flew South once. Couldn't buy a decent soft pretzel."

'I'd heard that they like to source their food locally'

"Do you do catering?"

'I'm sorry, but the free range chicken escaped.'

"All our water is locally sourced. From a little something we call 'the kitchen faucet'."