Food Trucks : Dispatches and Recipes From the Best Kitchens on Wheels [A Cookbook]

West Coast & Pacific -- Pacific Northwest -- Midwest -- South -- East Coast.;" ... Intrepid journalist Heather Shouse launches a coast-to-coast exploration of street food, providing readers a page-by-page compass for finding the best moveable feasts in America. Shouse identifies more than 100 best-of-the-best chowhound pit-stops featuring affordable and detour-worthy dishes that put to rest the notion that memorable meals can only be experienced in lofty towers of haute cuisine."--Inside flap. With food-truck fever sweeping the nation, intrepid journalist Heather Shouse launched a coast-to-coast exploration of street food. In Food Trucks , she gives readers a page-by-page compass for finding the best movable feasts in America. From decades-old pushcarts manned by tradition-towing immigrants to massive, gleaming mobile kitchens run by culinary prodigies, she identifies more than 100 chowhound pit-stops that are the very best of the best. Serving up everything from slow-smoked barbecue ribs to escargot puffs, with virtually every corner of the globe represented in brilliant detail for authentic eats, Food Trucks presents portable and affordable detour-worthy dishes and puts to rest the notion that memorable meals can only be experienced in lofty towers of haute cuisine. The secrets behind the vibrant flavors found in Vietnamese banh mi sandwiches , Hungarian paprikash , lacy French crepes , and global mash-ups like Mex-Korean kimchi quesadillas are delivered via more than 45 recipes, contributed by the truck chefs themselves. Behind-the-scenes profiles paint a deeper portrait of the talent behind the trend, offering insight into just what spawned the current mobile-food concept and just what kind of cook chooses the taco-truck life over the traditional brick-and-mortar restauranteur route. Vivid photography delivers tantalizing vignettes of street food life, as it ebbs and flows with the changing demographics from city to city. Organized geographically, Food Trucks doubles as a road trip must-have, a travel companion for discovering memorable meals on minimal budgets and a snapshot of a culinary craze just waiting to be devoured. From the Trade Paperback edition An illustrated guide to the new epicurean breed of food trucks, featuring profiles and recipes plus photographs from 50 of the hottest vendors in the country, from Los Angeles's Kogi to New York's Rickshaw Dumpling Bar. With meals on wheels garnering as much attention as high-end restaurants, eaters across the country are flocking to mobile vendors to score Korean barbecue tacos, crispy Belgian fries with rosemary-truffle ketchup, garlicky Hawaiian shrimp, and even curried frog legs. Favoring dynamic dishes over pomp, veteran food writer Heather Shouse takes readers on an exploration of our national street cuisine, presenting an insider's look at the best mobilized meals in the United States--revealing the true gems of this burgeoning movement along with their coveted secret recipes--accompanied by full-color photographs of her journey into the newest frontier in American cooking. From the Trade Paperback edition.