Customer Reviews

Food Trucks: Dispatches and Recipes from the Best Kitchens on Wheels

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Food Trucks gives an education, a few recipes and a few specific trucks to look for in various cities.
The cities were chosen as locales with high numbers of street food vendors.
The book is divided into west coast pacific, pacific northwest, midwest, south and east coast. The number of food trucks covered range from 13 in Los Angeles to one in cities such as Milwaukee, Madison and Minneapolis, Marfa, Texas, New Orleans, Durham and Portsmouth. Strange to have cities chosen as street food regions to only have one food truck selected. Other cities covered are; Washington, New York, Philadelphia, Miami, Austin, Kansas City, Chicago, Seattle, Portland, Oregon, San Francisco and Oahu.

There is information on the individual trucks and how they started. Side bars tell where interesting side dishes can be obtained - these have the addresses, the food trucks also have their web sites and how to twitter them.
This really is not complete enough to be called a guidebook considering the amount of food trucks out there now and it really isn't a cookbook. It has about 45 recipes from various food trucks.
It's an interesting look at what has really been a long time method to sell food in metropolitan areas.

Mediocre. Recipes that have already been shared if you scour different food blogs. The layout is too piecey and all over the place. If you're into recipes, do not get this book, or buy it used. Not worth $20 dollars.

I loved the idea of this book. If there were more recipes, this rating would be different. Some of the most interesting food out there can be purchased off trucks, and oh what a following! This book describes specific operators by city. It would be more timely, if it were a blog. If there were more recipes, it would have more value. I have no doubt that some of these trucks are already gone, and new interesting ones are cruising their old neighborhoods. Find a food truck blog instead. The few recipes included in this book aren't worth it. I feel pso strongly that this compelled me to write my first review. Apologies to the author, but blogging might be the better medium for this topic.

Read this and then hit the streets with a major appetite.

I recommend using this as an adventure guide, pick the trucks you like from the book, use <http://roaminghunger.com> to find them, and then set a schedule for all trucks you want to try!

I would love to got on this same road trip and visit all of them.

This book has a lot of good varieties of food trucks mentioned in it. However the book has more mentions about the biography of the people in the food truck and what is in them. Not an ideal recipe book but it does help you find the food trucks and what kinds of food truck. A must read if you want to know what states have what food trucks. This book mainly features food trucks in the United states. Although it doesnot mention every single food truck thisbook is a good start for you if you are a foodie seeking out that street food out there.