Keep on Truckin'

As I hurried to the bus station to begin my journey back home from Kansas City, I passed a row of food trucks of different cuisines--gyros, mexican and Lutfi's Fried Fish. It must be good, there was a long line!

Ironically, I recently read an article in the Wall Street Journal, titled, "Food Truck Nation". It chronicled the new boom of food trucks across the nation, in cities of all sizes. In DC, there are the organically themed, "On the Fly" trucks. The "Green Truck", serving fish tacos in vegetable oil fueled vehicles. And Kogi BBQ, serving Korean-styled tacos in LA, and powered by 28,000 followers on twitter, using bankrupt Chrysler subsidiary Global Electric Motorcars! And make sure you follow metwitter.com/culinaryconverse!).

As you can see, these are not your traditional roach-coaches. This is often high end fare that cost more than a hot dog but less than the same food in a sit down traditional restaurant.

The street food movement is not a new phenomenon. Pepper Pot street vendors in Philadelphia in the 19th century popularized food for people on the move!

All of this reminds me of food trucks in my locale, "Wilsons Hot Tamales", Mississippi Delta-style cornmeal tamales. They are great and recently I ate them with a glass of Riesling wine. You have to try this. they will keep you truckin'!