Topping Tastemaker Mugs

'My Lee's creative with food. He always customizes his toppings when we phone for pizza.'

'Eight years old, huh? If it's so good, why didn't somebody drink it eight years ago?'

Ice Cream Dreams.

"I use broccoli rabe as a litmus test."

'It's the essence of springtime. You're really enjoying it.'

"Being vegan or vegetarian isn't enough anymore. From now on I will only cook stuff I stepped in on the sidewalk."

Veggie Hall of Fame.

'After you with the camouflage.'

"What would you serve with toast?"

"It's all good – but some of it is better."

'To you it may contain 'a surfeit of soluble, optically active carbohydrates derives from higher alcohols'. To me, it's sweet.'

'Too acidic? On the contrary, I find it well balanced.'

"With his augmented reality headset he's actually eating in a five star restaurant."

Young Roger Penrose: 'Dad, I want to become a floor tiler.'

Young boy shows refined taste in champagne

"Which one had the health benefits in it?"

'It's a tough business model based on a low price point, but a shot of vodka really increases volume.'

"The diet section is located next to the snack bar."

"I'm always tempted by the more esoteric flavors- if only out of pity."

'Do you ever feel the trend to serve meals in towers is getting ridiculous?'

The EU rolls back US wine imperialism. Chateau Postmoderne has undertones of angst, fragmentation and self-doubt, mixed with an intriguing gout de desespoir.

"In a perfect world your toast would be done just right. But we don't live in a perfect world, do we?"

"Before Carlo did us, we thought the whole nineteenth century was clunky."

Bagpipe Horns.

"Just trying to get in on that whole 'farm-to-table' thing..."

'Back off, you're not my type.'

'No, no - Style over Substance.'

'Coffee table books are so 20th century...this is a 'double expresso mochaito latte with cinnamon table book'!