The People of the Book (finally) become the People of the Truck when Takosher (Twitter: @takosher), the nation’s first kosher taco truck soft-launches on Monday, serving tacos brisket, latke, and more traditional tacos.

T.G.I.N.F. because the Takosher Truck, like the John Goodman character in “The Big Lebowski,” doesn’t roll on Shabbos. It does, however, serve lunch on Fridays and re-opens late on Saturday nights to sate the club-hopping buccaneers of Pico-Robertson.

The Takosher Truck is certified Glatt kosher, considered the most stringent level of kosher, by Three Line K, one of many kosher-certification agencies — and the only one willing to work with Takosher.

Just as Kogi, once upon a time, created the template for nouveau food trucks, Takosher’s founders spent a year-and-a-half doggedly working to develop a “kosher program.”   Read the full article HERE

Canter’s Food Truck: Kibitzing in a Neighborhood Near You

Canter’s Deli, an institution known as much for its round-the-clock service and its preserved-in-amber ambiance as for its cuisine, just leapfrogged into the year 2010 with a food truck that hits the streets of Los Angeles — hopefully this week. The Canter’s Deli truck (Twitter:@canterstruck) is the brainchild of Bonnie Bloomgarden, a great-great-granddaughter of Ben Canter, one of the brothers who opened the first L.A. incarnation of Canter’s in Boyle Heights in 1931. Read the full article here

Rob Takata Chris and Regine Patterson stand in front of their truck, Reggae Chicken.

On Saturday afternoon, while 26 of Los Angeles’ nouveau food trucks converged at the T Lofts in West L.A. for a Haiti benefit, husband-and-wife duo Regine and Chris Patterson were putting the final touches on their Jamaican-American fusion truck, Reggae Chicken, which is scheduled to roll out today. Read full article here

Food truck profile: Little Spoon dessert truck rolls across Los Angeles

Elina Shatkin | November 17, 2009 |  7:00 am

Melissa Hanna and Laurel Tincher think they’ve found their sweet spot. Backed by food truck juggernaut Road Stoves, the two college-age entrepreneurs recently launched the Little Spoon dessert truck (Twitter: @weliketospoon), bringing together a wealth of freshly made baked goods from a variety of local vendors. Prior to the current food truck craze, Hanna had spent two years developing a business model for a dessert company that was based on partnering with local bakers and chocolatiers. “We’re not trying to be a cupcake truck,” Hanna says. “That’s already out there.” Click here to read the full article in the L.A. Times