{"id":12281,"date":"2011-07-05T06:00:43","date_gmt":"2011-07-05T12:00:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs2.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/?p=12281"},"modified":"2011-06-27T16:01:58","modified_gmt":"2011-06-27T22:01:58","slug":"food-trucks-by-heather-shouse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/food-trucks-by-heather-shouse\/","title":{"rendered":"Food Trucks by Heather Shouse"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>A unique combination of old-fashioned\u00a0chutzpah (becoming your own boss)\u00a0and\u00a0cutting edge technology (using twitter to tell your customers where you are), food trucks are all the rage. Significantly cheaper to open than a traditional brick-and-mortar restuarant, food trucks open the door to a better life for newly arrived immigrants (bringing authentic\u00a0recipes from home) to a creative outlet and financial independence for\u00a0wannbe-chefs and foodies. Plus, yum!<\/p>\n

Food Trucks<\/a> <\/strong><\/em>by Heather Shouse tours the country exploring the funky world of street food, from Hawaii to Los Angeles (ground zero for taco trucks) to Miami to New York City. You’d think (at least I did) that food trucks would be most prevelant on the coasts and in the southern, warmer states, but there are plenty of trucks worth seeking out in the Midwest (Madison, WI especially), the North and the Northwest. Interestingly, Chicago is considered a food truck backwater\u00a0– city regulations\u00a0prohibiting\u00a0cooking in the truck\u00a0means the food has to be prepared offsite, although it looks like that will be changed soon.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

Not quite a cookbook (although there are more than 40 recipes) and not quite a travel guide (although you’re going to want to hunt down some of these gems), Food Trucks <\/em>is a fun look at a piece of Americana that is alive and kicking. Plus, again, yum!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A unique combination of old-fashioned\u00a0chutzpah (becoming your own boss)\u00a0and\u00a0cutting edge technology (using twitter to tell your customers where you are), food trucks are all the rage. Significantly cheaper to open than a traditional brick-and-mortar restuarant, food trucks open the door to a better life for newly arrived immigrants (bringing authentic\u00a0recipes[Read more]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[10],"tags":[763,1670,1667,1669,359,1668],"class_list":["post-12281","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","tag-delicious","tag-ethnic","tag-food-trucks","tag-foodies","tag-recipes","tag-street-food"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pd0CXx-3c5","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12281","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12281"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12281\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12313,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12281\/revisions\/12313"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12281"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12281"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12281"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}