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(More customer reviews)The day I received this book, I didn't intend to lay on the couch for the next six hours reading it. When I finished, all I could say was "FK." I was totally hooked on the unique narrative, from their earliest days in a taco truck to the inception of Mission Street Food through to its (too soon) demise. I still miss the innovation and ingenuity (coupled with the sweet prices) of their weekly rotating menu and this was a way for me to tap into that again and perhaps brave a few of their daring recipes at home. I don't know of any other institution in the US who's established a nonprofit model such as theirs, or been brave enough to give such far-flung ideas a shot. It's totally inspiring. And Anthony Bourdain said it best, above.
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Mission Street Food is a restaurant. But it's also a charitable organization, a taco truck, a burger stand, and a clubhouse for inventive cooks tucked inside an unassuming Chinese take-out place. In all its various incarnations, it upends traditional restaurant conventions, in search of moral and culinary satisfaction.Like Mission Street Food itself, this book is more than one thing: it's a cookbook featuring step-by-step photography and sly commentary, but it's also the memoir of a madcap project that redefined the authors' marriage and a city's food scene. Along with stories and recipes, you'll find an idealistic business plan, a cheeky manifesto, and thoughtful essays on issues ranging from food pantries to fried chicken. Plus, a comic.Ultimately, Mission Street Food: Recipes and Ideas from an Improbable Restaurant presents an iconoclastic vision of cooking and eating in twenty-first century America.
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