Local Food Enthusiasts Gifts

'It's local. Grown here on the east coast, frozen and packaged on the west coast, and shipped back.'

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.'

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

The Coffee Shop Vats of New Jersey

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

"Is the MSG local?"

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."

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

"We've misjudged the tapas again."

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

Sustainability files, ways to reduce your carbon footprint

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

You're the sizzle in my roast!

"Your meal sounded nice."

Thermidor Dali

"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."

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.

Dad's old fashioned barbeque

'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.

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.

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

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

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

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

"He'd like the broiled monkfish, too, but first he's having a quick taste of the gutter."

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