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 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,...
by Flic Luxmoore | Wednesday, May 15, 2013 | Street Food, Street Food Theory, The Business of Catering
Today we were at the Farmer’s Market in New Street again, watching the rain and serving a sudden rush of lamb toasties. It led to some thinking, some tea and a hypothesis. Our best selling toastie is the ham and cheese. When we first started toasting it...
by Flic Luxmoore | Thursday, January 3, 2013 | Street Food, Street Food Theory
The Great British Toastie has seen us well through 2012, but this year, the third year of the Jabberwocky, we are considering refining our offering. There are a few reasons for this, all currently in a jumbled mess inside my head, so with the aid of tea, your good...