Morris Truck Becomes First Food Truck to Receive Slow Food’s Snail of Approval
I know we’ve got a lot of tried-and-true street meat lovers out there, but for any of you who happen to dabble in the locally-grown food movement, you might be interested to know that Morris Truck has received a Snail of Approval from Slow Food NYC. This means that Morris truck is the first food truck in NYC to be nominated and approved for the Snail of Approval. According to their website, Slow Food NYC awards the Snail of Approval “to those producers, purveyors and artisans who contribute to the quality, authenticity and sustainability of the food we eat and the beverages we drink in the City of New York”. (Pizza Motto, and a flatbed trailer with a brick pizza oven that caters rather than serves regular meals, and sometimes shows up at Brooklyn Flea, is the only comparable business I can find with the approval.)
According to Morris Truck, who has gotten some attention from my fellow bloggers in Midtown, all of their shopping is done at greenmarkets, and the cheese is 80% locally sourced and almost all domestic.
Posted by jenjfen at 1:45 pm, July 5th, 2012 under Morris Grilled Cheese Truck.
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This one looks especially interesting! ;-)
http://www.slowfoodnyc.org/event/slow_u_foraging_prospect_park_extreme_locavore_leda_meredith_0
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And they are where….?
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they’ve been in the 50’s lately. 51st and Madison a lot. here’s their twitter feed: https://twitter.com/#!/morristruck
Thank you for this info jenjfen, I have been keeping an eye out for places that utilize the locally grown food market in NYC and I am glad this is seeping into the food truck scene. I hope this becomes somewhat of a trend. Think I will try Morris Truck soon. Keep us updated if you come across any other places.
(Also, since you mentioned it, I was looking at Slow Food NYC’s website and there are some fun looking events coming up.)