{"id":403875,"date":"2010-03-08T08:54:46","date_gmt":"2010-03-08T13:54:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.ajc.com\/food-and-more\/?p=2728"},"modified":"2010-03-08T08:54:46","modified_gmt":"2010-03-08T13:54:46","slug":"sunday-column-looking-for-not-finding-street-food","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/403875","title":{"rendered":"Sunday Column: Looking for, not finding, street food"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_2729\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"width: 310px\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2729\" title=\"taqueria5\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.ajc.com\/food-and-more\/files\/2010\/03\/12-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"Gwinnett County Taco Truck, June 2005\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gwinnett County Taco Truck, June 2005<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><em>In yesterday&#8217;s Sunday column I caught up with my old friend <strong>Christiane Lauterbach,<\/strong> the longtime Atlanta food writer, who has started a blog that documents both the paucity of and the growing cry for food carts in Atlanta. There are a few taco trucks that fly under the radar here and there, but nothing of the gourmet food truck revolution that has rocked other cities like Los Angeles, Portland and New York. <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>If you know of any good food carts, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.atlantafoodcarts.com\/aboutpage\/\">be sure to let Christiane know<\/a>.<br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>LOOKING FOR FOOD CARTS<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Christiane Lauterbach takes an appreciative bite of her Sonoran hot dog &#8212; a bacon-wrapped tube steak piled high with messy, gunky yumminess &#8212; beans, queso, slaw, mayo. It is a fine simulacrum of the dish served from trucks parked throughout Tucson, Ariz.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I like this, &#8221; she says, &#8220;but I don&#8217;t believe in $9 street food. How about that?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>How about that.<\/p>\n<p>This hot dog was not served from a real truck, but rather from a stage-set truck parked in front &#0133;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gwinnett County Taco Truck, June 2005 In yesterday&#8217;s Sunday column I caught up with my old friend Christiane Lauterbach, the longtime Atlanta food writer, who has started a blog that documents both the paucity of and the growing cry for food carts in Atlanta. There are a few taco trucks that fly under the radar [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4063,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-403875","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/403875","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4063"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=403875"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/403875\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=403875"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=403875"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=403875"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}