Perth chef Gerrard Mitchell creates a range of beer flavoured foods
Cheese maker Gerrard Mitchell, who has become well-known for his beer-flavoured cheese, hams and beef products. Picture: Theo Fakos
Source: PerthNow
STRAW-beer-y jam is just the start for Gerrard Mitchell.
The Perth chef, who has 20 years experience, is breaking the mould with Beersine – a range of beer-flavoured cheese, cured meats, olive oils and desserts.
His beer-flavoured cheeses are already popular with Crown Perth’s latest restaurant, The Merrywell, selling his products.
And though attending beer festivals as research might seem like an envious gig, the 37-year-old’s success hasn’t come easy.
“For chefs a lot of people look down their nose at you if you work in a brewery there is nowhere near as much prestige,” he said.
“It’s changing step-by-step as people realise you can eat ten courses and have a beer to match every one.
“It’s not just a beer you drink down the pub while you’re watching footy, there’s more to it, particularly in craft and the craft beer industry in WA is on the up and up.”
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It was working with some the state’s finest craft brewers, at The Monk Brewery and Feral Brewing Company, that got him inspired.
“Walking into work every morning and smelling the brew, seeing (the brewer) push spent grains out, and going through different malts and hops – that kind of got me keen,” he said.
“I always wanted to make a point of difference.”
Mr Mitchell said it wasn’t just about adding a pint-full of beer, with some products made using ingredients commonly found in beer – such as hops or malt.
“I might just use the first part of the brew, that’s all sticky and sweet, so you get that beer flavour but you’re not getting the bitterness,” he said.
“It’s a voyage of discovery in some ways and that’s the exciting part.”
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Houston will get a food truck park on June 22.
Bayan Raji
Reporter- Houston Business Journal
Houston’s first food truck park will make its initial showing on June 22.
The park, located at 1504 St. Emanuel St., will be able to host as many as eight food trucks, CultureMap reports, but the owners Jack Gillett, Ponce Tirzo and Miguel Villegas said they may use a nearby parking lot to increase that to 20 during special events.
Yummy’z Kitchen, Coreanos, POCKet to Me and Betton’s Comfort Food will be part of the starting line up, CultureMap reports.
Four Houston food trucks were recently named among the 101 best in the nation. Overall, 11 Texas food trucks made the list, led by Austin’s East Side King at No. 6. San Antonio also gets a top-10 nod, with Rickshaw Stop checking in at No. 7. The Peached Tortilla, also in Austin, is No. 34; Food Shark in Marfa, Texas, ranked No. 44; Easy Slider in Dallas took the No. 79 spot; and another Austin truck, Hey you Gon Eat or What, is No. 89.
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The world is their lobster.
The Daily Meal has voted Red Hook Lobster Pound’s lobster-mobile the best food truck in America for 2013, after examining 450 trucks in over 40 cities.
Unsurprisingly, New York City dominated the list, with the Big Gay Ice Cream Truck coming in fourth, The Cinnamon Snail at eight, Schnitzel Things in 11th place and Wafels Dinges at lucky number 13. Red Hook Lobster Pound moved up from 11th place last year.
“I’m absolutely thrilled,” Lobster Pound owner Susan Povich told The Observer. “It’s great to be recognized for the hard work that we do. We have a great staff, and we work hard to maintain our product, our quality and our authenticity.”
The Daily Meal compiled the list by examining such factors as Twitter and Facebook followers, menu innovation, concept, and geography. Also, only full-fledged trucks were considered. Per their website, “If it needed something to pull, drag, push, or carry it, if it wasn’t on four wheels and couldn’t move on its own power from parking ticket to parking spot? Gone.”
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Ms. Povich’s truck serves the Lobster Pound’s famous lobster rolls, served Maine style (cold with celery, spices and homemade mayo), Connecticut style (warm and slathered in butter), or Tuscan style (tossed in basil vinaigrette on a bed of greens). They also offer shrimp rolls, a lobster BLT, lobster Mac and Cheese, New England clam chowder, and other deep-sea delectables.
Ms. Povich boiled down her secret to food-truck success for The Observer.
“You just gotta keep true to what you do,” she said. “I always tell people who ask me about opening food trucks that unless you’re serving fabulous food, it’s not a good business. You have to stand out by what you serve and how you serve it. It’s all about the food and the relationship with the customers.”
Their truck, nicknamed “Big Red,” is at 46th and 6th Avenue today, in case you want to take a crack at it. Tomorrow is National Lobster Day, after all. What better time to shell out?
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The Crooked Spoon Gastropub restaurant, run by former food truck chef/owner Steve Saelg, is slated to open later this summer in Clermont.
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Steve Saelg, one of the Orlando area’s food truck pioneers, put his truck into a permanent park and is shifting into bricks and mortar.
The owner/chef of The Crooked Spoon — one of Central Florida’s original “Big Six” food trucks and who helped launch the area’s mobile dining movement into TV stardom by being featured on the popular Cooking Channel show Eat Street — is gearing up to debut The Crooked Spoon Gastropub in south Lake County this summer.
The restaurant will be at 200 Citrus Tower Blvd. in Clermont, Orlando food blogger Scott Joseph reports. The standalone building is a former Friendly’s restaurant in a Publix outparcel, according to a listing on LoopNet.com.
Chef Steve and I have been playing phone tag, but be sure to check back to see if I can catch up with him and hear about what he has planned for the restaurant.
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And follow Chef Steve’s move into becoming a restaurateur on The Crooked Spoon’s Facebook page.
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Steve Renzie and Paul Davis of Kung Fu Hoagies
By A.D. AMOROSI
A little over a year ago, Paul Davis and Steve Renzi started taking their vegetarian Kung Fu Hoagies (KFH) cart for a spin on a daily basis, offering the finest in Vietnamese-influenced food (Davis is a painter – that’s his art on their cart – and a student of the martial arts) throughout the universities of West Philly and, in particular, Clark Park. Now, the pair can be found mostly near South Philly’s East Passyunk Avenue, delighting fans with their their cuisine and using Twitter to get the word out for their location.
We hung out with the men of Kung Fu Hoagies last Sunday. Not only did we grab hold of a generous skewer lined with BBQ tofu (KFH also has a small selection of noodle dishes such as bowls with vegan beef, chicken, coconut and lemongrass), we had two tasty hoagies: one banh mi with marinated tofu, carrot, daikon, jalapeno and vegan mayo, and a vegan ham hoagie with marinated tofu cilantro and pickles. Each one was handmade and grilled in front of us. Each one had the perfect amount of crunch and was absolutely and uniquely delicious.
Steve Renzie works the KFH grill
There is almost always a line for Kung Fu Hoagies, but in our experience it moves very fast, and it’s fun to watch Renzi work the grill. Sometimes, KFH stays near Sigel Street, sometimes they are across from the Pub on East Passyunk (aka The Pope, 1501 East Passyunk), and, Davis and Renzi can still be found at Clark Park (4301 Chester Avenue). We’ll be looking for them there when we attend Clark Park’s annual flea market on June 22. You can find them through the Kung Fu Hoagies Facebook page, or via their account at Twitter.com/KungFuHoagies.
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Posted on Monday, June 10, 2013
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For the last month, we have been asking for submissions and votes for our 2013 Best Food Truck Graphic Design. Once we determined the top 10 trucks almost 2,0500 votes were submitted from around the world; and you; our readers have made your choice. The winner with over 650 individual votes comes from Tampa, FL. Renny’s Oki Doki food truck will have a feature article published in the near future, and their graphic designer Ruben A. Aquino has won a free month of advertising on Mobile Cuisine.
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Food Network’s “Great Food Truck Race” will be in Minneapolis this weekend, and two of the four remaining competitors have asked the Minnesota Food Truck Association for help.
Four trucks are left in the competition: Philly’s Finest Sambonis, Los Angeles-based TheSlideShowFoodTruc, St. Louis-based Tikka Tikka Taco, and Hawaii-based Aloha Plate Truck, based in Hawaii.
The reality show features seven trucks that travel from city to city to see who can make the most money.
Minnesota food trucks plan to host a rally to greet the competitors at 612Brew and Indeed Brewing Co. on Saturday at noon.
So far, Starlight Diner, Motley Crews Heavy Metal Grill Food That Rocks!, and Bloomy’s Roast Beef are confirmed to greet Tikka Tikka Taco Truck at 612Brew. Gastrotruck, The MidNord Empanada Truck, and Natedogs are confirmed at Indeed Brewing Co. to welcome Philly’s Finest Sambonis.
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Mike Swaleh of Tikka Tikka Taco said plans could change, based on the competition. Check for updates and changes on the MNFTA Twitter account or follow one of the competitors.
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