Since discovering Jim Leff’s posting on Street Food in Jackson Heights, I’d been fantasizing about a stroll down Roosevelt Ave tasting these delectable treats—from tacos to elote, and quesadillas to arepas I was hooked at the idea of this street food heaven We began with a carnitas quesadilla topped with spicy green salsa at a [...]
Archive for the ‘USA’ Category
Heaven in Queens
Posted in USA, tagged jackson heights, jim leff, New York, quesadillas, street food, taco al pastor on September 7, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Bald Peanuts?
Posted in USA, tagged bald peanuts, boiled peanuts, South Carolina, street food, Timbos on August 8, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
When I first heard my uncles rave about “bald peanuts”, I imagined Mr. Potato Head-like legumes with receding hairlines. It was only after my first taste of these soft, briny nuts, while sitting on Folly Beach in South Carolina, that I realized my uncles, in their southern drawls, had been talking about “boiled” peanuts. These [...]
Central Texan BBQ
Posted in USA, tagged bbq, lockhart, Smitty's Market, street food, texas on July 16, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
From hogs roasting in back yards to roadside, mobile smokers, BBQ is a central Texas specialty. But with only one day in this roast meat heartland, I needed to taste what Gourmet magazine ranks one of the best joints…even if it wasn’t necessarily street food. Entering Smitty’s Market on a 98-degree day is like visiting [...]
Marfa’s Food Shark
Posted in USA, tagged hummus wrap, marfa, street food on July 10, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Bon Appetit ranked The Food Shark of Marfa, Texas sixth in its Hot 10 US street food vendors. But when I happened upon the Food Shark, after a few weeks of fast food and veggie-lacking desert meals of Arizona and western Texas, I ranked the Food Shark’s ambrosial hummus wrap ($6.99) number one. Minimalist artist [...]
Cooking Dumplings in Texas
Posted in Recipes, USA, tagged Asian Grandmothers Cooking blog, dumpling recipe, Monsoon Spice, Monthly Blog Patrolling, Recipe, street food, texas on June 29, 2008 | 4 Comments »
I didn’t expect that two weeks after leaving San Francisco I’d find myself making Chinese dumplings from scratch on the side of a Texan freeway. Reading through my street food Google Alert, I was thrilled to discover that the theme of The Spice Cafe’s Monthly Blog Patrolling (MBP) was street food, hosted this month by [...]
Hot, Hot, Hot
Posted in USA, tagged chile, Nellie's Cafe, new mexico, street food on June 28, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Scoville-craving heat junkies flock to New Mexico for its capsicum bounty. Leaving Arizona on I-10, we had one Las Cruces destination in mind, Nellie’s Cafe. Nellie’s began as street food. Nellie Hernandez and her husband Danny sold burritos from a cart in 1962, but the quality of their burritos and the stellar chile sauces quickly [...]
Oregon Trail from South to North and West to East
Posted in USA, tagged Farmer's market, mother's, Oregon, portland, salmon, Shemanski Park, street food, tamale on June 24, 2008 | 1 Comment »
While the logical route from San Francisco to South Carolina involves heading east on a highway straight through the center of the United States, I didn’t want to leave the west coast before exploring the oft-praised foodie-haven of Portland. So from Post Creek we drove further north, with a quick stop at Crater Lake (the [...]
Hittin’ the Road
Posted in USA, tagged post creek lookout, road trip on June 22, 2008 | 2 Comments »
David and I packed up and left San Francisco last Sunday. We’re moving east and spending the summer in Charleston, SC with my parents before embarking on an international trip. So we decided to spend a few weeks exploring the US on the way home Researching, as I do before any trip, I found we [...]
