by Flic Luxmoore | Monday, January 30, 2012 | Food Van Driving, Street Food, The Business of Catering
The beast has had a fairly easy ride so far. He has slept on our driveway and been fed diesel, taken for regular romps in the country side, and has only once been asked to earn his keep. I think up until this point he has been more like a really expensive, lovable...
by Flic Luxmoore | Friday, October 14, 2011 | Food Van Driving
The Beast has surprised us a lot over the past 10 months, in both good and bad ways, but a few weeks ago, on the evening of the second Jabberwocky tasting, we discovered a whole new glorious aspect to his character. It would appear that beneath his chassis sit several...
by Flic Luxmoore | Thursday, September 15, 2011 | Food Van Driving, Hopeful, Street Food, The Business of Catering
I’ve had several stabs at writing this post, and so far all of them had ended with me flicking over to you tube. The first post after our first real event is something important and should be treated with a certain level of seriousness, I think. But at this...
by Flic Luxmoore | Thursday, July 14, 2011 | Food Van Driving
There are several, perhaps even many problems with cooking on gas. For a start, it tends to catch fire. This is, of course, the idea behind using it in the first place, but it does make people rather wary of the stuff. Not only does it gleefully ignite, it can also...
by Flic Luxmoore | Thursday, June 23, 2011 | Food Van Driving, Street Food
The last time I remember being this excited about stickers was when my friend and I swore to collect every single one in the generic-horse-riding-stickers-specifically-targeted-at-11-year-old’s-pocket-money collection. It is my firm belief to this day that...
by Flic Luxmoore | Friday, June 17, 2011 | Food Van Driving
Music: Wounded Rhymes by Lykke Li We finally found a cooker for the Beast. It was within our price range and would fit the space in the van. It was also in Winsford. I had therefore decided to fix the faulty cigarette lighter in Stevo the Stilo so that the sat nav and...