Traditional Food Lover Gifts

'A wee bowl of porridge can set you up for the day!'

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.

Night of the Latkes

"O young, naive one...you must know the golden rule of the kitchen. To avoid the mother of all disrespects...never criticize the cooking of a family elder."

'Is this still America?'

Get your no-turkey recipes here! Eco club. Go veggie for T-day! No thanks! I like turkey, sausage, stuffing, creamed onions with bacon and mincemeat pie. I figured as much. How can you tell? Gut check. That's my gut reaction, too.

Full English Breakfast.

Grandma's caf

'Fred is a social conservative -- he believes in slow food and heavy beer.'

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.

"So, are you predicting an early spring?"

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

'I told you I only cook with my mother's Italian spices. She just left Naples and should be here with them in about eight hours.'

Man on Stilts in a Market

Great Moments in Culinary History.

Shavuot - Like!

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

'I googled it Mom. There's no such thing as McLiver and onions.'

'It's farm-to-table-to-farm dining.'

"Baldo, I don't like you eating that nasty food!"

Food Fight

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

"Sometimes I come up here and think about the great meals I've eaten."

Yesterday of Minnesota.

"It's steak and chips, it is what the ploughman had for lunch!"

'Do you have any Cheese and Pickle?

'As you can see, we take the concept of local food very seriously...'

'This one is better. No needles on the carpet.'

"I resolve to cook more traditional meals like my lengua casserole and pig's feet stew!"

"Very Republican. I love it."

"It seems an ungrateful and disrespectful monster has taken over Baldo's brain."

"...brisket ...recipe. Hide it."

"I'm a meat and potatoes guy in a kale and tofu world."

'One SHISH-KA-BOB TO GO!'

"It was ok, but could be improved by cooking!"