Let’s take a look at the sustainable food trucks showing up around LA:
Let’s Be Frank: It’s goal: to change the world one hot dog at a time. It’s method: Selling only locally raised grass fed beef hot dogs and sausages. Follow Let’s Be Frank on twitter @letsbefrank 
Green Truck on the Go: Serves organic/local food, uses compostable to go plates/cups/utensils and uses vegetable oil as fuel. These Green trucks have been showing up in New York and Los Angeles. Follow Green Truck at @green truck
Border Grill: Brought to you by the founders of Sustainable eatery Border Grill and Ciudad, this taco truck serves sustainable Mexican cuisine. follow them on the twitter @bordergrill.
Cool Haus: Can’t hear the music of the ice cream truck? Look no farther! Cool Haus offers handmade ice cream sandwiches with locally and organically sourced ingredients. Follow Cool Haus @COOLHAUS
Sprinkles Mobile: Your favorite cupcake is on the go and green friendly! The mobile truck offers Sprinkles’ famous cupcakes with packaging and wrappers made from recyclable material and donates leftovers to food banks each day. twitter @ http://twitter.com/sprinklesmobile.
Divine Nourishment: Committed to minimizing use of plastic bags and prepackaged foods, using all organic ingredients, buying local produce and using biodiesel to fuel the vehicles, this truck provides tasty and sustainable food on the go. twitter @organicgoodnessAre these trucks truly sustainable as they drive around Los Angeles selling to an upper class taco truck customer? Some use bio fuel while others simply commit to reducing waste, but all of these trucks are spreading the word about the importance of sustainable food practices and representing the growing demand for healthy food choices in Los Angeles. Though these gourmet trucks may in the future compete with current taco trucks for customers, it seems more likely that a new market of mobile food is about to develop with the inclusion of sustainable eateries. Will we see Leo’s offer a free range chicken quesadilla in the future? Only time will tell. Until then, tweet your heart out and enjoy some environmentally friendly food on the go.
Hi. Good list of resources. I'm coincidentally creating a survey tool of mobile and street food for a project we have on food/transportation linkages. the challenge will be to get vendors to answer questions on their business/ health practices.
ReplyDeleteI really love this mobile, alternative food revolution that is currently happening in Los Angeles. I spent last summer doing reserach on urban agriculture in New York City and worked in the Hattie Carthan Community Garden. While there, I helped the garden start their own farmer's market as they had been struggling to find ways to get food both grown in the garden and regionally to people in their neighborhood. While the farmer's market was relatively successfull, it apparent that there must be a more effective way to distribute sustainable food. Upon returning to Los Angeles in August, I realized that a number of these new socially conscious taco trucks had popped up seemingly overnight. They way that most of these trucks operate -- rotating locations around the greater Los Angeles area every few hours -- these trucks make available good fast food to the entire city.
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