Friends in High Places
Posted by Christiane Lauterbach | July 23rd, 2010 | Filed under News
“I really support restaurants and see them as transformative devices for neighborhoods,” this enlightened (and well dressed) politician declared, adding, “We need to roll out the welcome mat for businesses, let people know Boston is a business-friendly city, embrace innovation. Food trucks are welcome.”
Also, Boston’s first Food Truck Festival is to take place August 8 in the South End.
Pretty…but not nice
Posted by Christiane Lauterbach | July 21st, 2010 | Filed under Carts
We dragged ourselves out of bed last weekend to see the Cooking Channel food mobile at the East Lake Farmers’ Market only to be rebuked by a staff uninterested in media relations!
We understand that they were just setting up and getting ready to offer complimentary tastes of locally made Jake’s ice cream with Jummy Jummy dessert toppings (the owners of both businesses were in attendance and in a friendly mood), but being shooed away from the truck by someone unimpressed with our credentials just about enraged us.
Look at the shots we managed to snap and be glad you weren’t there to get the bum’s rush!
Eye Candy
Posted by Christiane Lauterbach | July 15th, 2010 | Filed under Objects of Desire
Thanks to this cool little infographic spread, New York magazine’s article about “Trucks on a Roll” as part of their yearly Cheap Eats issue really pops out.
Read the full text of the article and drool with envy…
Ice Cream Social and New Wheels
Posted by Christiane Lauterbach | July 12th, 2010 | Filed under Carts
Westside Creamery (see previous features here and here) goes fully mobile with a cute new truck the owners bought in Ohio.
Maggie Rentz and Greg Smith took their new wheels on the road to participate in an ice cream social held last weekend in front of The Mercantile on DeKalb Avenue in Candler Park.
Look at Maggie (fresh as a rose as usual) and check out her new flavors.
Keep your eyes peeled and your wallet ready…this is the summer of the ice cream truck!
Snowballs in the Heat
Posted by Christiane Lauterbach | July 7th, 2010 | Filed under Carts
Kenneth Woodfin’s bright green trailer does brisk business in the warmer months at the corner of Ponce de Leon and Moreland Avenues.
A large percentage of his clientele comes from New Orleans and flocks faithfully in the afternoon and early evening in the parking lot of the Exxon gas station to enjoy a true taste of Crescent City. Yesterday, we enjoyed talking to a young father, his cute daughter, and his parents, who were visiting from Louisiana; we decided to try the kid’s favorite flavor (yummy strawberry) rather than the more exotic ones.
Unlike a snow cone, which consists of hard pellets sloshed with fruit syrup, a snowball is deliciously light and powdery and permeated with flavor. A recent article in the New York Times compared the two, declaring that “a snoball (the preferred spelling) is to a snow cone as Warren Beatty is to Shirley MacLaine: closely related, but prettier, smoother and infinitely cooler,” warning that in New Orleans, “you can get killed if you call it a snow cone.”
The Orleagian Snowballs trailer (orleagiansnowballs.com) has been a precursor in the street food movement. It was recently featured in an article about street food written by Anna Swindle in the Atlanta Journal and Constitution.
We plan on trying a flavor a day! Banana, Blackberry, Bubble Gum, Cherry, Chocolate, Coconut, Coffee, Cotton Candy, Creamsicle, Grape, Hawaiian, Hurricane Katrina, Ice Cream, Lemon Lime, Mango, Nectar, Orange, Peach, Pina Colada, Pineapple, Pink Lemonade, Raspberry, Rootbeer, Sour Apple, Spearmint, Strawberry, Srtawberry Daiquiri, Tiger’s Blood, Watermelon, Wedding Cake, and combinations thereof!
