Tag: Celebrity

In a downtown parking lot sits one of the most impressive things that Jamie Oliver, the chef-activist-TV personality, has brought to Los Angeles for his "Food Revolution" television show: a red-and-khaki-striped big rig tricked out as a traveling cooking school.

Tavern on the Green now has daily food trucks. During spring and summer, four food trucks, Ladle of Love, Pera Turkish Tacos, Rickshaw Dumplings and Van Leeuwen Ice Cream, will operate seven days a week, from 11 a.m. until dusk.

Half of the visionary duo BACON MANia is Jay DiEugenio, whom we invited to join us in this week's edition of On the Line.

On Saturday, September 24th, 2011, some of the most delicious street food vendors in all of NYC will descend on Governors Island to compete for The Vendy Cup.

Frito-Lay is going one better than the seemingly endless list of companies using food trucks to promote their brands.

Aviva Shen files a thought-provoking story about why food trucks are drawing so many career-changers. They're are all about branding, she argues, not about the food:

Culinary credentials, or even experience, are no longer a prerequisite for success in the culinary world. More and more of these dissatisfied professionals are skipping the usual steps and reaping quick rewards.

Gourmet food trucks have been driving the culinary scene in Los Angeles, New York City and other metropolitan areas for several years. Salt Lake City joined the trend in 2010 with one truck that sells Asian tacos and sliders and another that sells cupcakes.

For a year beginning in April, a food truck called Singapore Take Out will travel the world, stopping in nine cities: Hong Kong, Shanghai, Moscow, London, Paris, New York, Sydney, Dubai and Delhi.

The success of the Food Truck phenomenon is so great that some locals, from residents to brick-and-mortar restaurant operators, have cried "Foul!" and turf wars have erupted over parking spaces, traffic congestion, impact to the community and simple competition.