The food truck phenomena keeps growing and growing. The latest city to catch food truck fever is also one of the most unexpected – Paris.
Street food itself isn’t new to France, with street vendors selling pizza, crepes or spicy Moroccan merguez sausages, cooked on griddles and stuffed into baguettes.
Yesterday the NY Times had an article about new food trucks in Paris that serve tacos, burgers and similar cuisine. While Americans were previously known only for fast food, among young Parisians, there is currently no greater praise for cuisine than “très Brooklyn,” a term that signifies a particularly cool combination of informality, creativity and quality. Food trucks fit that description to a t.
An artisanal taco truck called Cantine California opened recently, as did a very popular burger truck called Le Camion Qui Fume (The Smoking Truck), owned by Kristin Frederick, a California native who graduated from culinary school here.
“I got every kind of push-back,” said Ms. Frederick, 31. “People said: ‘The French will never eat on the street. The French will never eat with their hands. They will never pay good money for food from a truck.’ ” (Her burger with fries costs 10 euros, about $13.)
Click here for the entire article, which offers some pretty interesting reading. [NY Times]
