New York Street Food

For my first meal in Austin, I went to Cazamance at 90 Rainey Street, which was recommended by Mike at Austin Food Carts.  Cazamance’s chef and co-owner is Iba Thiam, who grew up in Senegal in West Africa, but also lived in France and New York prior to Austin – and his food is influenced by all of these places.

I asked what Cazamance meant and was told it was the place in Senegal where Chef Iba’s father is from.

I also asked Chef Iba what dish he recommended, and he said the Moroccan Lamb Sausage Wrap for $8.  Sounded good to me!

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We found this short video of street food in Mombasa, the 2nd largest city in Kenya.  There’s no English narration, but you don’t really need it here to get the point.

The Traveling Culinary Carnival put on by the Fojol Bros has added another truck – this one from Benethiopia (to go with the one they already have from Merlindia).

It can get kind of silly, but we really enjoyed lunch from their Merlindian truck on our trip to Washington DC about a month ago.

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