food trucks

A photo from Tacos y Birria La Unica's Facebook account.

Also hit by inflation? Your local taco truck

6:34am June 28, 2022

by Sean Saldana

Higher prices for gasoline, meat and vegetables and even cooking oil have put pressure on food trucks as they struggle to balance menu prices with customers' expectations of a low-cost meal.

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During the 2017 New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival last April, Mr. Okra drove his iconic produce truck and called out to customers.

National

Goodbye, Mr. Okra: New Orleans Remembers Its Singing Vegetable Vendor

8:00am February 17, 2018

by Debbie Elliott

Arthur James Robinson, known as "Mr. Okra," died this week. But New Orleans residents will never forget his distinctive inventory call and his brightly-painted truck, winding through the city.

Wes Avila behind the wheel of the Guerrilla Taco food truck, a 1983 Chevy painted Dodgers blue.On the menu you'll find tacos with wild boar and thick-cut bacon, wild porcini mushroom and corn quesadillas, and Thai snapper tostadas.

Books
Arts

'Guerrilla Tacos': Street Food With A High-End Pedigree

11:22am November 02, 2017

by Mandalit del Barco

Wes Avila is leading a new wave of LA chefs: children of immigrants, classically trained in French cuisine, who blur the lines between high and low. His acclaimed food truck now has a cookbook.

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Idaho Power's downtown Boise office is one of the sites that's hosted the Ada County mobile voting trailer. Idaho is one of the states that has same-day voter registration.

Politics & Government

How 'Food Truck Voting' Is Catching On In One Idaho County

6:16pm October 29, 2016

by Frankie Barnhill

Idaho's most populous county is adopting the convenience of food trucks to attract more early voters. But a new system doesn't agree with everyone in a campaign cycle filled with election fraud talk.

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Kolkata now has its first food truck: Agdum Bagdum. Its owners, two foodies who quit pharmaceutical jobs to become food truckers, were inspired by America's food truck craze — which, of course, was inspired by street food in places like Kolkata.

America's Food Truck Craze Parks On The Streets Of Kolkata

8:22pm November 11, 2015

by Sandip Roy

Kolkata now has its first food truck: Agdum Bagdum, which hawks Indian fusion food. It was inspired by American food trucks — which were originally inspired by street food in places like Kolkata.

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Boston's North End is full of authentic Italian eateries. The Olive Garden is most definitely not one of them. But this weekend, an Olive Garden food truck parked there, handing out free food samples.

Arts

Mamma Mia! Olive Garden Food Truck Invades Boston's Italian Neighborhood

7:00pm June 22, 2015

by Craig Lemoult

That's right: The Italian food chain has jumped on the food truck craze. And this weekend it parked in Boston's North End, where Italian food is most sacred and many eateries go back generations.

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Artist Nicolle Schatborn at The Kitchen Of The Unwanted Animals food truck in Amsterdam.

Pigeon, Parakeet And Pony: Amsterdam Food Truck Serves Maligned Meat

5:18pm March 10, 2015

by Meghan Collins Sullivan

The Kitchen Of The Unwanted Animal, a food truck and specialty food provider, is trying to change attitudes toward "edible" animals in Holland. They're doing it one My Little Pony Burger at a time.

Charlie Wicker of Trailhead Coffee Roasters makes all of his deliveries within the 6-mile radius of urban Portland, Ore., on one of his custom-built cargo bikes. He can also pull over to brew and serve coffee.

Food Trucks, Share The Lane. Food Bikes Are Merging Into The Business

1:17pm January 29, 2015

by Alastair Bland

A growing number of food vendors are literally pedaling their wares. From baristas to veggie farmers, many say bikes are a cheaper, greener, more convenient way to launch their mobile food businesses.

Customers walk out of Street Boutique, parked in Shirlington Village, Va. Street Boutique is a pop-up truck that's similar to the many food trucks in the area, except it sells clothes and jewelry.

Make Room, Food Trucks: Mobile Fashion Stores Have Hit The Streets

10:28am October 10, 2014

by Lucy Perkins

Entrepreneurs who want to launch a retail business in the fashion industry have found a more affordable way to do it — by launching food-truck-inspired rolling boutiques.

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