by Flic Luxmoore | Wednesday, July 3, 2013 | Street Food, The Business of Catering
On Monday I had my final day of real work. I washed out my mug, sat through the uncomfortable if well-meant goodbye cake and went to the pub afterwards to demolish the three drinks required to make me verbose and smiley. The following day was then my first day off...
by Flic Luxmoore | Wednesday, June 26, 2013 | Street Food, Street Food Theory
There is a blog post I cannot write. So without writing it, I thought I’d explain why, because that’s the reasoning behind keeping this project: to talk about everything. The Jabberwocky Soliloquy has always floated along the line between the diary aspects of a...
by Flic Luxmoore | Friday, June 21, 2013 | Street Food, Street Food Theory
I sat down just a moment ago to check something before starting the blog, and seem to have lost a few hours. Recently, specifically since the BBC Good Food Show, this has been happening more. You stare idly at a fixed point in the middle distance, brain cruising on...
by Felicity Luxmoore | Tuesday, June 11, 2013 | Street Food
Tomorrow is the first day of the biggest event of the year; the BBC Good Food Show 2013 at the NEC in Birmingham. We won the pitch after a fortuitous series of events involving nominations and voting earlier in the year and have since discovered, by way of an invoice,...
by Flic Luxmoore | Wednesday, June 5, 2013 | Street Food, Street Food Theory
The last week has seen us single-handedly cover almost all the street food bases, and at any rate do justice to my personal top three: The market (Warwick Uni, Brindley Place), the collective (Digbeth Dining Club) and the festival (Vale Fest). We were able to road...
by Flic Luxmoore | Wednesday, May 22, 2013 | Food Van Driving, Street Food, Street Food Theory
Every event is a little different, but most of the time they will be something like this. It starts the day before, with a deep clean of the van. Cleaning is a pretty big theme here, brace yourselves. Every surface inside the van has to be scrubbed, then antibacked,...