Markets in Everything: Gourmet Food Trucks

CHICAGO TRIBUNE -- "In the last couple of years, a gourmet food truck craze has swept cities from Los Angeles and Austin, Texas, to New York and Minneapolis. High-end chefs and talented amateurs have hopped in mobile kitchens to serve kimchi tacos, grilled cheese sandwiches and Latin-Asian chow to foodies who follow them on Twitter and line up in convivial droves.

But while Chicago is home to some of the nation's most innovative restaurants, its food truck scene has largely been left in the dust. Only "pre-prepared and packaged foods" — like the kind sold from silver lunch wagons — can be offered on the street, not the freshly made delicacies fueling the trend.

Determined to change that, Chicago-area chef  Matt Maroni has drafted a city ordinance that Ald. Scott Waguespack (32nd) plans to introduce in the City Council this month."

HT: Matt Bixler