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Eating Clean: How Food Trucks Keep You Safe And Healthy
Good hygiene is a must when it comes down to the restaurants one chooses to eat at. You wouldn’t eat at a restaurant that doesn’t use fresh ingredients or one where their head cook doesn’t wash their hands. Cleanliness is important to keep the public from getting sick from the restaurants they eat at, but it’s not like customers are allowed to pop their heads in the kitchen and examine it head to toe to make sure the kitchen is up to their standards. Fortunately, as far back as the early 1900s, the U.S government took interest in food safety...
Gourmet Meals On Wheels
A large majority of food lovers enjoy eating gourmet food, but they also like stopping at food trucks. Although these two delicious food categories are almost one and the same, there are very little gourmet style food trucks. Before reading about these, it is important to know what classifies as gourmet since it has multiple meanings for different people. Many people, including I, consider gourmet as fine or luxury dining that serves well decorated meals at a more expensive or formal business. For others, gourmet means a food connoisseur or a "foodie." Although fine dining food trucks are often rare,...
An Ever Expanding Downtown Las Vegas District
Downtown Las Vegas has always been an exciting and artsy area filled with growing opportunities. Every corner is filled with excitement, delicious eateries and best of all, booze. Compared to the Strip, where restaurants and cafes are jammed into one specific area, Downtown Las Vegas is divided into smaller districts such as the Fremont district and the Arts district. Conveniently, Downtown Las Vegas offers multiple events that attract both residents and tourists to bring forth income such as First Friday and Life is Beautiful. Unfortunately, due to the pandemic, these events are shut down, but that doesn't stop locals and...
The Mysterious East Coast In-N-Out Burger
In-N-Out Burger is a truly American Burger joint. Started by Harry and Esther Snyder in 1948, the simple restaurant revolutionized the drive thru, in a time where carhops dominated the "fast food" scene. But when an In-N-Out staple, the Double Double, was found in the middle of Queens, New York, eye brows raised at this suspicious find. Why? Well despite being such an American Icon, In-N-Out Burgers are primarily only found on the West Coast. Starting in Baldwin Park, a suburb in Los Angeles, In-N-Out quickly spread to northern California and parts of Nevada. In 2010, the American burger chain...