News Feed: August 12, 2011

by jbfauthor on August 12, 2011

Activists to promote local food on the first ever Food Day this fall. [UPI.com] Barbecue techniques spread to European kitchens. [WSJ] The best appetizers in the Chicago area. [Chicago Tribune] Is spoiled food not always dangerous to eat? [Slate] Chill out with these recipes for icy Italian granita. [Boston Globe]

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News Feed: May 18, 2011

by jbfauthor on May 18, 2011

Do search engines really take you to the web's best recipes? [NYT] Bon Appétit explains its new approach to writing recipes. [BA] A new way to prepare asparagus from Melissa Clark. [Gilt Taste] Trend alert: offal and waffles. [NYT]

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Mobilizing: Can Chefs Get Chicago to Green-Light Food Trucks?

by Anna Mowry on December 20, 2010

On the final day of the 2010 National Restaurant Association Show in Chicago, Mobi Munch—the country’s “first mobile food service infrastructure company,” according to its website—drove its slick prototype onto the “Food Truck Spot” pavilion. Attendees drifted in and out of the crimson red vehicle, which was souped up with gas heat, waste containment, and a POS system. A banner overhead rallied: “Take your eats to the streets with Mobi Munch!”

If an entrepreneur had been moved to buy the truck and speed off to launch his own itinerant eatery, he wouldn’t have made it beyond the parking lot: food trucks—specifically those from which chefs both prepare and serve food—are illegal on the Windy City’s streets. (The city does permit mobile vendors to sell prepackaged goods that were cooked in a licensed

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News Feed: December 13

by jbfauthor on December 13, 2010

The joy of cooking in your fireplace. [WSJ] Food trucks halted by legal red lights in Chicago. [WSJ] An interview about reinventing fast food with Yoxi's Sharon Chang... [Wholesome Wave] ...and the folks who want to make pad Thai a new grab-and-go grub. [SF Gate] Wine demand grows in China.

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