Short Orders Story Titles

RESTAURANT RITUAL
Habitual restaurant visitors are fascinating, sometimes mysterious.

FEASTING IN RIO CIRCA 1980
When slaves’ “feast of necessity” goes first-class

COCONUT RITE OF PASSAGE
Not just food, but so much more!

ACME BEAUTY GRADUATION DAY
Biotin is their secret.

A JUG, A MEAL AND A POEM
The land provided everything but the vino.

A SHAMAN’S SAVVY
It took one of their bonfire feasts to pull it off.

BELGIUM’S ACCIDENT-PRONE HORTICULTURIST
How a new vegetable was born

CAN-DO CHEF
Food as yeoman’s work.

CARVIN’ THE BIRD
What would a family gathering be without food?

CHOCOLATE PASTA TEST
It’s all in how it melts.

FIRST-TIME NUDIE
When food takes a back seat

BUCKET LIST CROSSING
Poseidons and fresh fish from Portuguese waters

COMMERCIAL FOR A SALMON DINNER
Foods and their boxes

CULINARY ALCHEMY
There will always be new things to do with food.

DEMONSTRATION DEBBIE
Vegetarian convert

CULINARY SUITE
Better be glad most recipes are tested.

DINNER AT BARNEY’S
What’s a good soup kitchen without fresh-baked bread for dunking?

EATING CAN BE DANGEROUS
Preventing every dirty place from entering your “temple”

DOGGY BAG LADY
Meal planning in a restaurant

FOR FANS OF NEW YORK TIMES’ “WEDDINGS/CELEBRATIONS”
Petit Fours at four at Foggy Bottom

FORAGING WITH THE WILDMAN
New York’s bountiful patch of greenness

INTERNATIONAL PINEAPPLE FRENZY
Awestruck by a fruit

GREEK ISLAND MEMORY MAKING
Something about a Mediterranean waterside café…

GIBRALTAR’S “COMFORT” FOOD
Wars forge permanent eating habits.

GOOD LIFE MOUSE
A bit to eat and a place to hide

GREEK TO TAMPA BAY
Potato salad mystery solved!

HAGGIS ON TRIAL
She knew he was right, but she did it, anyway.

HAPPY KITTEN DIARY
The milk of human kindness

NEVER A LIFE-LONG FULL BACK
Running a popular restaurant makes one “sort of a star.”

JASON’S PARENTS
Too little food can ruin things.

JAZZ BRUNCH
A Big Easy, pre-Katrina reflection

LOLA’S CHAGRIN
Food will keep you alive. Sex won’t.

INFERNO WAITING TO HAPPEN
Contrasts in fine dining venues

LUNCH BREAK LET DOWN
Carryout detour

LOVE SONG TO A GRILLED CHEESE
So gooey!

MANICURISTS’ SECRETS
Food and a tip usually secure it.

MISSISSIPPI MUD-MOUTH
Jes’ good eatin’

MASCARPONE MONDAYS
Too much of a yummy thing

NO BAGGAGE
Strange dining acquaintances

MILLION-DOLLAR REFINERY
Food processing most simplified

MORNING PERFORMANCE
Weekly supper celebration

MR. CHIN’S EGG ROLLS
Cultural food bump

VICTORY SAUCE
Necessity is almost always the mother of invention.

RHODE ISLAND FRIENDS OF THE GOVERNOR
The big huitlacoche blunder

SAMPLING THE GOOD LIFE
Fine living gets complicated.

SHARED COMMUNION
How ho-hum free snacks can derail anonymity.

SOMETHING FROM THE NYOTAIMORI
The world’s never-ending quest for unusual serving trays

SUPERBOWL IS EATING TIME
TV tells us to spend lots of bucks on treats, and then we run out and do it.

WE COOKED MEXICAN
It’s possible to organize a lot of novices and still get things done.

TATTOO TABOO
Different cravings for different folks

THE BUSH DOCTOR WHO WROTE IT DOWN
Cures can be very simple.

THE CHUTNEY MAKER
Such latitude!

THOMAS JEFFERSON, THE FOODIE PRESIDENT
He grew it, he enjoyed it but he never cooked it.

THE WEDDING PARTY
Good scarfing is so much fun…

THOSE ITALIANS AND THEIR BRIGHT-COLORED GELATOS
Can be smoother with fewer calories

THREE-IN-ONE DINNER PARTY
So many special occasions demand menu repetition.

THE SOUTHWEST’S OWN FOOD
Fred Harvey’s girls made the chili express happen.

TRIATHLON, THE CAKE
Cooking always looks good on anyone’s qualifications list.

TURKISH DELIGHT
Even whirling dervishes eat.

WHEN FABRIZIO’S IN THE HOUSE
Some speak in parables; he speaks in recipes.

HE PLANS THE BEST PICNICS!
“And, he thought she was so perfect!”

ZUCCHINI POWER
Bet you can’t grow just two!

FOR FANS OF IRON CHEF AMERICAF
Food frenzy dramatized