All Star Lanes Diner

All Star Lanes diner on Brick Lane is a traditional style american diner. I went there with my friend for some primary research! I had one of the best breakfasts I've ever had!!!

Article from : Eat ME magazine > Table Manners

• Funny Aftertaste... On Table Manners
• The British pride themselves on good manners, but are you equipped for the stress of every food-based situation? Saul Wordsworth and his team of writers in India on how to navigate the world of culinary etiquette.
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  My table manners are far from watertight. I slump in my seat, rest my elbows on the table and have a tendency to slurp my soup. Plus I move my face to my food not my food to my face. Thankfully I make up for all this by being astoundingly sparkling company.
  That’s the thing with table manners. If you’re fun to be around no one will give two figs if you don’t balance your fork at eight o’clock and your knife at four when pausing between mouthfuls. Just say something decidedly hilarious and it won’t matter one jot if your gob is full of beans at the time.
  Of course there are problems with this theory. Firstly not everyone can be a memorable dinner guest. Some people are crashing bores, telling lame jokes and expressing predictable opinions on everything from the death penalty (“Only for the murder of a policeman”) to marmite (“have you noticed people either love it or hate it?”). If you fall into this category your choices are to get more interesting or make sure your manners are up to scratch. If they’re not, people will notice and comment in private (“Did you see the way Charles picked his nose and ate it during pudding?”).
  Furthermore there are circumstances when, regardless of personal charm or weight of charisma, our ways at the table are still crucial.
  On a Date:
  Does the way we eat reflect the way we have sex? Maybe it does (messily, primly, slowly etc) but on a date, especially a first one, it is best to go by the book. This means letting the lady sit facing into the restaurant, waiting until both of you have your food before starting, and not doing a massive burp that reverberates through the structure of the building.
  As a man you may want to play the rebel/charisma card. This could mean anything from leaning on the table and flicking grapes into your mouth, to picking up your steak and devouring it like Henry VIII. This may work for some women, but be aware that a disproportionate number will be more interested in the superficial particulars of shoes, hair, nails, and table manners. You can always pour Bailey’s down her chest and lick it off during date three.
  The Business Lunch:
  The big boys are over from the States. There’s £3 million riding on the contract. You’re hoping to seal the deal over a lavish lunch at The Gaucho off Piccadilly. So don’t fuck it up by picking your teeth, nabbing the last hunk of bread or eating other people’s leftovers. Fellow diners, particularly if they are American, will take this badly. “I can’t deal with an asshole who spits food in my face and doesn’t excuse himself when he goes to the head,”they will say. “Let’s get the fuck outta here, Brad.”
  If you have tabular habits that are a little outré, just rein them in for a course or two. You can always go out later and enact all the stuff you wanted to do (fart, burp, wet yourself). Hold it together, man.
  Meeting the Queen:

  “You’ll never be invited to tea with the Queen if you eat like that,”

  my grandfather used to say to me.

  “But granddad,” I’d plead, “Uncle Myer licks his plate!” “Yes,” he’d say, “ and he’s never met the Queen.”

  Although I’ve yet to experience the pleasure of dining with royalty, it is a fact that minding your Ps and Qs is an area of the upmost importance. Picture for a second the cold stare you would receive from the Queen were you to use the wrong fork. Or the cough the butler would expel were you to go for your cucumber sandwich before the Queen. Doesn’t bare thinking about, does it?
  So there you have it. Being a good diner is not a bad default position. If you were the kind of person who was brought up in a house where no one used cutlery and you threw food into each other’s mouths, buy a book on table manners. If all else fails just remember to keep your head down – though not so far down as to be in your soup – be polite, and always pass the salt. Thank you.

"Bin Appetit"

A short film outlining the reasons why people become Freegans.

"Why Freegan?"

After some research I have found that the closest thing to a Freegan manifesto is the pamphlet "Why Freegan". It's written by former Against Me! drummer Warren Oakes in 1999. It is quite unclear in its definition of what constitutes freeganism. At one point, it defines freeganism as "an anti-consumeristic ethic about eating" but goes on to describe practices including dumpster diving, plate scraping, wild foraging, gardening, theft, employee scams, and barter as alternatives to paying for food. Motivations are varied and numerous; some adhere to freeganism for environmental reasons, some for religious reasons and others embrace the philosophy as a form of political consciousness. The pamphlet does include a lengthy section on non-food related practices, including solar energy, conserving water, precyclling and reusing goods. Some freegans consider these non-food practices to be components of freeganism itself; others simply consider them to be complementary practices.

Freeganism

I first became aware of 'Freegansim' from watching a really awfull dating program where one of the applicants lived a Fregan lifestyle. I became interested in the principals of this way of life, because in the last few years I've become really aware, and frustrated by the amount of food that is wasted in industry. After working in various cafes and supermarkets, I became aware of how much food has to be thrown of as a result of govenment ruling.

Freeganism is essentially an anti-consumerist lifestyle whereby people employ alternative living strategies based on "limited participation in the conventional economy and minimal consumption of resources".

Freegans "embrace community, generosity, social concern, freedom, cooperation, and sharing in opposition to a society based on materialism, moral apathy, competition, conformity, and greed." The lifestyle involves salvaging discarded, unspoiled food from supermarket dumpsters, known as 'dumpster diving'. Freegans salvage the food for political reasons, rather than out of need.

The word "freegan" is a portmanteau of "free" and "vegan".Freeganism started in the mid 1960s, out of the antiglobalization and environmentalist movements. The movement also has elements of Diggers, an anarchist street theater group based in Haight-Ashbury in San Francisco in the 1960s, that gave away rescued food.

Ice Cream Vans

An ice cream van (British) or ice cream truck (American) is a commercial vehicle which serves as a traveling retail outlet for ice cream, usually during the summer. Ice cream vans are often seen parked at public events, or near park, beaches, or other areas where people congregate. Ice cream vans often travel near where children play; outside schools, in residential areas, or in other locations. They usually stop briefly before moving on to the next street.

Ice cream vans are often brightly decorated and carry images of ice cream, or some other images, such as cartoon character. They sometimes have painted-on notices, which can serve a commercial purpose. Such as: "Stop me and buy one!" or a more serious one "Watch that child!", serving as a warning to passing motorists that children may run out into the road at the sight of the van, or appear without warning from behind it). Along the sides, a large sliding window acts as a serving hatch, and this is often covered with small pictures of the available products, with their associated prices. A distinctive feature of ice cream vans is their melodic chimes, and often these take the form of a famous and recognizable tune, usually "Turkey in the straw", "The entertainer", "Music Box Dancer" or "Camptown Races "hy7ju87ygt6pl,hgibhuygn cbxgt3h; or, in the United Kingdom, "Greensleeves", "Whistle While You Work" in Crewe and Nantwich, "You Are My Sunshine" in Vale Royal, and "Match of the Day" in other places^{[citation needed]}. In some places in the US, ice cream trucks play the song "Ice Cream" by Andre Nickatina (essentially just Turkey in the Straw with bass).

Ice cream van in Sydney, Australia.

Ice cream Van in Brisbane, Australia.

Most ice cream vans tend to sell both pre-manufactured ice lollies (American English: popsicles) in wrappers, and soft serve ice cream from a machine, served in a cone, and often with a chocolate flake (in Britain) or a sugary syrup flavoured with, for example, strawberry. Soft serve ice cream is served topped with sprinkles for a slight extra charge. Other vans tend to be run by small businesses, selling their own variety of ice cream.

In some locations, ice cream van operators have diversified to fill gaps in the market for soft drinks, using their capacity for refrigerated storage to sell chilled cans and bottles.

Early vans used relatively primitive techniques: their refrigeration was ensured by large blocks of dry ice so the motor was always turned off when the van was stopped for sales. The chimes were operated by a hand driven crank or a take-off from the motor, so they were not heard as often.

Eat Me Magazine

I  came across this publication whilst researching for my 'Breakfasts' part of this project. I think the concept is brilliant; a modern, fashionable approach to food. Food is a subject that the public seem to love, the amount of publications, cookery programs, food documentaries and competitions, such as Come Dine With Me, is astonishing. 

Eat Magazine is the first food publication designed

for and made by people who also love art, style, and culture.

Their mantra is:

"Eat Me is a new magazine for any young, sophisticated food lover who is tired of reading the turgid old food publications that occupy the shelves. This is where food meets modern sensibilities. 
Eat Me Magazine brings to the table a fine blend of dazzling recipes, incisive reviews and charming articles. Food should never be boring."