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…
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!
Barcelona Loves Street Food…but not very much and mostly after dark
Posted by Christiane Lauterbach | July 5th, 2010 | Filed under Objects of Desire
If one doesn’t count potato chips (charmingly spelled xips in Catalan) on the beach or homemade empanadas peddled by South American immigrants during the festivities of Sant Joan, pretty much the only game in town is the famous Churreria J. Argiles, a beloved beachfront trailer that, for more than four decades, has supplied magnificent freshly fried churros and thick hot chocolate (xurros amb xocolata) to the youth that pours out of the discotheques and heads for the beaches to sleep off their buzz or sober up.
Now that we are (barely) back in Atlanta, we can’t think of anything we’d like more than a food truck selling churros and chocolate at 6 a.m.!
Historic Roswell Believes in Food Carts
Posted by Christiane Lauterbach | June 21st, 2010 | Filed under Carts
Check out Mom’s Table’s adorable rolling cart from the 1950s and its collection of tableware and kitchen accessories.
Alas, the cart is only used as part of the decor, but just outside the door, peanuts are being boiled in front of a jolly little produce market.
The verdict on the peanuts: most excellent…not too salty or slimy!
Yeah, Roswell!
Gwinnett Is Cool!
Posted by Christiane Lauterbach | June 10th, 2010 | Filed under Carts
Marsha Bomar, the Chief Happiness Officer for Chocolate Perks (www.chocolateperks.com) in downtown Duluth, is a born New Yorker and local politician with a knack for street food. We caught up with her ice cream cart in an indoor setting (an art exhibit and talk by our friend David Gelin, the author of BBQ Joints: Stories and Secret Recipes from the Barbeque Belt), where it was put to good use.
Normally, the Chocolate Perks cart is in service outside the restaurant by the same name on the Duluth Town Green and delights the locals with rich, thick, homemade ice cream.
