Book Review: Food Trucks: Dispatches and Recipes from the Best Kitchens on Wheels by Heather Shouse

Now that I have decided to incorporate recipes and restaurant reviews into this blog I am also going to be sharing with you some of my favorite cookbooks/ food related books. For the first installment of   Megan's Parties & Good Eats Book Reviews I have decided to feature Food Trucks: Dispatches and Recipes from the Best Kitchens on Wheels by Heather Shouse. I got this book a few years ago for my dad for father's day and I had looked through the photos and quickly read through it, but it wasn't until I was home for Thanksgiving that I really thoroughly read through the book. I absolutely loved the premise of the book, trying different food trucks across the country and interviewing the owners to get their stories and some of their recipes. Basically the author of this book Heather Shouse got to live out one of my biggest dreams.

I would love to be hired as a freelance writer for a magazine and try restaurants (possibly the best "cheap eats", but I would be open to other ideas as well) in different cities across the county, interview the chef's and share their stories. So if there are any magazine editors out there who are reading this blog, let me know and email megan.wormser@gmail! I would love to make my dream of traveling to different cities across the country and then eventually globally eating food and interviewing chefs a reality, but in the mean time I will settle for trying different best of New York City "cheap eats" and sharing my reviews on this blog,  stay tuned for a lot of restaurant  reviews coming your way! 

Now enough about me and more about the fabulous book I'm discussing today. As I mentioned I absolutely loved the premise of the book and thought the author did a great job describing the food truck owners in such detail that you could picture the person and felt as if they were a close personal friend or family. I also loved how each person started their trucks under different circumstances, but the unifying thing that tied them all together was their passion for their truck. A lot of the food trucks had times of struggle and most are not earning a high income, but their enthusiasm and passion for their truck and the food they cook is contagious. All of the food truck owners profiled in the book are great examples of taking the road less traveled and sometimes having to risk everything for passion  and personal fulfillment. It takes a lot of guts to not take a corporate job with a steady paycheck and instead follow your passion and start a business such as a food truck and I have great admiration and respect for everyone featured in the book that took the risk to follow their passion. In conclusion, this book really struck a cord with me and was very inspirational. I hope you will all check it out. You can buy it on Amazon or Barnes & Noble.