AN ALMOST ENTIRELY VISUAL POST WITH THE CAKE LADY AS APPETIZER, FOLLOWED BY VAST SELECTION OF INTERNATIONAL ENTREES AND SOME CARTOON CUSTARD FOR DESSERT

Rumor has it:  Romney's first choice for VEEP was Marie Antoinette.

Yo New York!

What's happenin?

 Mobile Munchies, Portable Patisseries, Sidewalk Soups, Al Fresco Arroz con Pollo, Walkup Waffles, Parked Popovers, Four Wheeled Falafel, Step Up Sushi...

It's an explosion of Food Trucks!

From Sausages free of all meat...

To a see through fast food City Treat...

for same sex delight...

 an afternoon delight?

Or a taco or two on the street.

Go fishin and just eat it raw...

Send Samosas and Saag down your maw...

From Crepes stuffed with Lentil...

from "Hams" sentimental...

It's a choice to inspire pure awe! 

Korean grill masters are smokin...

Bowl of Soup for a buck?  I ain't jokin...

Octopi on four wheels...

You can't find better deals...

With dessert for the price of a token.

Their names range from plain to bizarre...

combining cuisines from afar...

And for some the best part...

is how each truck and cart...

has transformed all the streets into Art!

Now for the Second Main Course...

Who was The New Yorker cartoonist who wrote the Seinfeld episode about the New Yorker cartoon nobody could understand...and which was inspired by this cartoon...?

Bet you didn't know... it's Bruce Eric Kaplan and he's had hundreds of cartoons published in the magazine over the years--in addition to the scripting of that (self-deprecating?) episode, and a bunch of other funny stuff.

Like Thurber, but darker.  Many cartoons feature Edmund and Rosemary, a childless Brooklyn dwelling couple prone to pessimism and prolonged periods of post-modern angst.

Book (left)  is a full length story that reads like a children's book for existentialists.

Some random samples from New Yorker archive ...

for more go to:
http://www.condenaststore.com/gallery.asp?startat=%2Fgetthumb.asp&txtSearch=bruce+eric+kaplan&CID=BA18901CD8B1437CA835738B13F6ACAF