Eat Street: The Tastiest Messiest And Most Irresistible Street Food

by James Cunningham

Overview

Eat St. is a lip-smacking celebration of North America’s tastiest, messiest, and most irresistible street food. Join James Cunningham on the ultimate culinary road trip to find the most daring, delicious, and inventive street food across the continent.

And the best part is that now you can make these delicious, over-the-top, culinary creations at home. Eat. St. is packed with 125 recipes from the best food vendors on wheels dishing out great curbside eats all over North America from Tijuana-style tacos served out of an Airstream trailer to pizzas baked in a brick oven on wheels to classic dogs with all the fixin’s to sirloin burgers slathered in bacon jam. It’s filled with full-colour photographs of your favourite vendors and the most sumptuous, mouth-watering dishes you won’t be able to resist!

Eat. St. is the perfect book for fans of the hottest food trend and a full-course meal of the tastiest street food around.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780143188384
Publisher:	Penguin Canada
Publication date:	03/05/2013
Sold by:	Penguin Group
Format:	eBook
Pages:	304
File size:	29 MB
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Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

James Cunningham is the host and associate producer of the hit TV series Eat St. that airs on Cooking Channel (USA) and Food Network Canada, and in more than a dozen other countries around the world. James has been featured on many national and international network television shows including Last Comic Standing, Just for Laughs, and Comedy Now. When not filming Eat St., James keeps himself busy performing at comedy clubs, corporate shows, and with his multi-award winning youth financial literacy program, Funny Money.

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Editorial Reviews

Cunningham confesses that he is a terrible cook. But his passion for eating has been enough to propel him into the host spot of Eat St., the Cooking Channel’s survey of awe-inspiring food trucks, and now into the role of author for this collection of more than 125 recipes culled from the show. The book is a study of both utensil-free street snacks, and the more complicated, fork-mandatory dishes that have evolved as this realm of cookery comes of age. Though Cunningham is a professional comedian, he generally stays out of the way, letting the recipes speak for themselves. He contributes the briefest of commentaries about each truck, but compensates with an extensive “Truck Finder” bibliography, listing Web sites and Twitter handles for each. The chapters are arranged by complexity, beginning with fries then moving through burgers and hot dogs, sandwiches, tacos, soups, and then curbside meals like lobster risotto and pulled pork caesar salad. The last chapter, on desserts, is a decadent foray into maple bacon cupcakes and carrot cake pierogies. Geographically, the selections are nicely varied. There are the expected cities such as Seattle; Los Angeles; Austin, Tex.; and New York, but also a healthy sampling from locales in Florida, Arizona, and even Canada and the U.K. Matching cuisines to their native locales would be a fool’s errand, since many of these mobile chefs delight in bringing foreign flavors to their home turf, including Chris Hodgson and his Dim and Den Sum truck, which rolls soba noodles into the heart of Cleveland, Ohio. (Mar.)

Publishers Weekly

The crew from Eat St. was a lot fo fun. The Vij's Railway Express family felt as if our train had arrived at a busy, bustling station! Eat St. is doing an amazing job bringing the crowds, culture and fun of street food to our North American cities - Vikram Vij, Vij's Railway Express

Why we love it – Food truck fare is some of the tastiest, most crave-worthy cuisine around: a mash up of tacos, burgers, curries, and, more often than not, topped with kimchee! Now we can create these delish dishes at home. - Chatelaine Magazine

In James Cunningham’s hit show Eat St., the Canadian comic roams the globe in search of “the most daring, delicious and inventive street food around.” He’s certainly found it in North America’s food trucks. The growing trend – which sees hip foodies equip trucks with kitchens and drive around their hometowns, flogging insanely delicious, guilty pleasure dishes as they go – is the subject of James’s debut cookbook. The appetizing tome serves up the most drool-worthy discoveries of his culinary adventures, from Malaysian Lime-Chili Tofu Grilled Burritos to Orange Cream Dream Cupcakes. Dig in! - Hello Canada

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