Regional Food Fan Prints

Backroad cuisine: REDHOT SWEDE...Minnesota - style chili

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.'

Freshest ice cream in town!

Before/After

OFA. Onion Farmer of the Year. I told myself I wasn't going to cry ….

Sustainability files, ways to reduce your carbon footprint

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.

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

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

"Say it with Pierogies"

Bedside Manna.

Man on Stilts in a Market

'Coffee and Converstion' vs. 'Beer & Bullshit'

Meanwhile in Yorkshire

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

"It's Brooklyn clam chowder - you got a problem with that?"

'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'.'

'Do you happen to have a scratch-and-sniff menu?'

Food Fight

Party Animal, Party Vegetable, Party Mineral

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

'You're fried!'

"What's so great about eating local? It's all fast food."

All Our Ketchup Is Locally Sauced

'Fancy a take-away?'

Pasta, Cookies, Antacids.

Here's your 18-inch pipin' hot pepperoni. I will devour. Wait, give it just a minute. Must … hold … on. Roof-of-mouth burn. Another hot-pizza-related injury. Dear reader, We spare you the carnage.

'Why don't you try to think outside of the trough once in a while?'

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

Yesterday of Minnesota.

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

Supporting local farmers.