BEAUTIFUL FOOD ON WHEELS NOW
We rounded up a collection of beautiful new food on wheels for today’s BN Daily Fix - from food that rolls right up to your doorstep to scrumptious treats that roll up to a curbside a bit farther afield.
As of today, you can get some of the most luscious fruits, clear-noted deeply flavored spices, and interesting grains, and gorgeous food accessories delivered to your home kitchen from one of our favorite sites and friends, Food52. They are now shipping their super-good taste out to us all with their new online kitchen and home store -- called Provisions.
You’ll find a highly curated, top quality, truly treasured collection of fresh and pantry foods, kitchen tools, cookware and tableware. Provisions aims to give you “everything you need in your cookling life in one place.” Sure! We can get sumptuous ingredients and magnificent things to cook and serve them in from Provisions then follow a fabulous Food52recipe to make it all come to life, beautifully, on our tables and tongues. They can be a go-to source for everything from recipes to wedding gifts -- a full circle of food joy!
One Provisions item that caught our eye immediately is the Salt Plate from aFire. Seriously cool and pretty, this plate, made from a slab of pure pink Himalayan salt crystals, adds seasoning to whatever you lay upon it. It can guild everything from frozen sweets to BBQ meats, with a gentle saline whisper.
From clean contemporary styling, to vintage finds, Provisions has selected some of the loveliest tools and vessels to grace both your stove and table.
Provisions has cherry-picked the best fruit too -- Frog Hollow Farm Flavor King and Flavor Heart Pluots. A cross between the lush tart juicy flesh of a plum and and the fragrant silkiness of a California apricot, these Frog Hollow’s pluots are pinnacle pairings. All organic and sustainably grown.
Photo: James Ransom
Even the spices we found on Provisions are exceptionally enchanting. Their Oaktown Spice Shop Whole Hand Select Star Anise is so pretty, fully flavored and scented, you’ll be glad you won’t have to crush it to enjoy it’s flowery licorice high notes.
For now, the newborn Provisions store has a very limited, albeit brilliant, selection of options to order. But watch them as they grow! We can’t wait to see what they’ll be adding to our wishlist!
If you’re out and about, discover beautiful food on wheels at some of the best new food trucks around. For starters, check out Nuchas, recently nominated for the food truck industry’s 2013 Vendy Award as Rookie of the Year. It slings out freshly baked “inspired hand-held food” in the form of artisanal empanadas from it’s New York City based vintage-styled trucks.
Ariel Barbouth is the culinary genius who developed these creative spins on the traditional Latin American pastries. We love the deep complex flavors of their Short Rib empanada, flaky savory rosemary scented crust filled with slow-braised beef braised in a Malbec reduction.
Nuchas Empanadas come in an ever-changing, always-interesting array of savory and sweet varieties. They offer the Argentine as well, a traditional empanada with ground beef, onions, peppers, scallion, potatoes, & olives in a white dough.
Nuchas bakes some fantastic vegetarian empanadas too. Their Porto empanada, filled with Portobello mushrooms, spinach, mozzarella & fresh herbs in a flaky spinach crust is a star.
And try their sweet empanadas, bursting with exotic fruit, chocolate, and spice combinations.
Photo: Courtesy of NYC Food Truck Association, Nuchas Artisanal Empanadas.
Eat them out of hand on the street, pack them for a perfect picnic, or bring them home and china-plate them up for a beautiful moveable feast.
Photo: Courtesy of Revitsa de Estilo
Another New York food truck beauty queen is The Red Hook Lobster Pound. Their lobster rolls really rock! With a top-split J.J. Nissen bun, buttered and toasted, extra-loaded with giant chunks of ultra-fresh tender lobster meat, lightly laced with homemade mayonnaise, celery nuggets, with a sprinkling of smoked paprika and chives, Red Hook trumps all.
Photo: Courtesy of Culinary Types
Red Hook Lobster recently ranked as one of the Best Food Trucks in America by The Daily Meal, beating out 449 food trucks from more than 40 cities, including last year’s winner, Los
Angeles-based Kogi BBQ.
If you’re having a party, these food trucks also cater and will happily roll to you.
Finally, perhaps the most beautiful food on wheels comes from Meals on Wheels, Citymeals, God's Love We Deliver, and other organizations that bring food to people who are homebound due to frailty, illness, and poverty.
The Meals On Wheels Association of America, for example, is the oldest and largest national organization composed of and representing over 5,000 local, community-based Senior Nutrition Programs in all 50 U.S. states, as well as the U.S. Territories.
These programs, manned by more than two million volunteers provide well over one million meals to seniors who need them each day. Some programs serve meals at congregate locations like senior centers, some programs deliver meals directly to the homes of seniors whose mobility is limited, and many programs provide both services.
Meals on Wheels has recently testified before US Congress, citing the impact of governmental budget cutbacks on hunger among the elderly.
Food on wheels can be a beautiful thing. Seek it out, bring it home, and give it generously to others.
Enjoy our other Beautiful Wheels posts this week, including The Most Beautiful Wheels Now, Beautiful Wheel Reinventions, and Cool New Wheels Change Worlds. And enter this week’s photo competition. The theme: Beautiful Wheels (Deadline: August 11th, 2013).