Local Food Enthusiast Pillows

Supporting local farmers.

"All of our plastic utensils are manufactured locally."

Indoor Farmer's Market

When this is gone. . . so is this.

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Invest in a sure thing: Your Town Farmers Market

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.'

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

The Coffee Shop Vats of New Jersey

"Is the MSG local?"

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

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."

"Yuppies! There goes the hood!"

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

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

"We've misjudged the tapas again."

"Your meal sounded nice."

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

You're the sizzle in my roast!

"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."

Dad's old fashioned barbeque

Thermidor Dali

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

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!'

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

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

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

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

Snacks for Learners