NYC Street Vendors: Food Trucks, Coffee Carts, Market Stalls, and More

$35 · Offered by Kitchen Arts & Letters

For a limited time we have copies signed by Joel Holland. Joel Holland's friendly illustrations capture what makes these businesses worth seeking out: the personal scale, the specificity of place, the sense that each one belongs exactly where it is. The vendor profiles do the same work in words. Among them: The Cheong Fun Cart in Manhattan's Chinatown, where Cantonese rice noodle comes wrapped around roast pork, shrimp, or vegetables Flamboyan Kitchen, bringing Puerto Rican mallorcas, a sweet bread, to the Bronx Night Market La Cocina Tropical, offering pan-Latin American food on Bay Street in Staten Island Old Traditional Polish Cuisine, a food truck whose Greenpoint, Brooklyn location will surprise no one who knows the neighborhood Mama Hattie's Kitchen, serving soul food from a truck on Fortieth Avenue in Long Island City, Queens More than 150 vendors in all. Food dominates, but the book also profiles artists, writers, performers, chess players in public parks, and a handful of mobile bookstores. Affectionate, specific, and hard to stop browsing. Hardcover. Color illustrations throughout.

• Binding: Hardcover

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