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."

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.

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

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?"

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

"Say it with Pierogies"

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

Man on Stilts in a Market

(Direct to the Consumer)

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

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

'This should increase our business.'

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

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

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

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

'Is it local?'

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

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

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

"Do you do catering?"

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

"On the plus side, all the ingredients are local."