Local Food Enthusiast Gifts

Supporting local farmers.

"All of our plastic utensils are manufactured locally."

Indoor Farmer's Market

When this is gone. . . so is this.

Sustainability files, ways to reduce your carbon footprint

Invest in a sure thing: Your Town Farmers Market

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.'

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

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

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

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

"Is the MSG local?"

The Coffee Shop Vats of New Jersey

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

A corner market is taken over by suburban sprawl.

Party time.

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

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

"Yuppies! There goes the hood!"

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

"We've misjudged the tapas again."

"Your meal sounded nice."

You're the sizzle in my roast!

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

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.

Thermidor Dali

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

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.

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

"I love finding my food at the Farmers Market. Makes me feel like a true pioneer."

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

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

Dad's old fashioned barbeque

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