Food Truck Nerd Podcast Episode 38

This episode marks the first anniversary of the Food Truck Nerd podcast! Episode 1 went up on June 23, 2011. (It was supposed to go up on June 22, 2011 but I ended up staying past midnight working on it, so June 23, 2011 is the date of record.) Thank you so much to all the loyal and casual listeners who have joined us in the past twelve months, all the warm and talented food truck folks I’ve been privileged to meet, to my endlessly patient family for allowing me to force-feed them The 408 sandwiches and short rib burritos, and to the foodie friends I’ve enjoyed socializing with online and curbside. Here’s to many more mobile meals and mouth-ful microphone machinations in the year ahead!

• You might enjoy Dining with Doug and Karen, a new podcast featuring comedy and comida. Episodes 2 and 3 feature Let’s Be Frank and The Grilled Cheese Truck respectively.
• Twitter went down for a couple hours June 21 during prime food truck lunch time. It’s a wonder I didn’t starve.
• Mark your calendars with the San Francisco Night Market (August 17, 2012) and Street Food Festival (August 18, 2012). Night Market tickets are on sale now. These events will be followed by the Food and Entrepreneurship Conference which last year was called the National Street Food Conference. All events benefit La Cocina.
• And now a shameless plug: check out the Noteboard, a portable foldable dry erase board, invented by a friend of mine. Low tech FTW!
• The Food Truck Mafia have launched a new weekly event: Pleasanton Street E

[Update] Tragically somehow this post got truncated. Here’s a quick attempt to recreate the relevant links.

• Whole Foods Market presents SactoMoFo 5
• Grilled Cheese Bandits (GCB) truck
• The Butterscotch Girl (TBG) truck
• El Taco de Oro truck
• Lost San Jose at The Usuals

Recordings

• Recorded 5/12/2012 at the Food Trucks Fundraiser for Veterans Supportive Services Agency
• SJ Sharkie interview
• San Jose City Councilmember Ash Kalra
• Tiara Cortez, the event organizer
• Santos Ramirez of Bay Bombs car club