When I heard about this festival, I nearly fell out of my chair. Seriously.  Fifteen food trucks? In ONE PLACE?

It’s true, fellow foodies.  This Sunday, at SOWA Sunday, a plethora of mobile chefs (including those not only on trucks but also carts AND trikes) will converge on one parking lot in the South End, offering you the best of Boston’s food trucks.

Radio Boston’s producers visited three trucks this week and spoke with organizers Christine Liu(Boston CitySearch) and Ali Horeanopoulos (SOWA Sundays) about the event.

Listen TODAY at 3pm for our YUM report.  Don’t worry if you miss it, the audio will be posted later today.

• First Annual Boston Food Truck Festival
• SOWA Sundays

 

Alexandra Dimodica

LOCAL BITES

Take your sandwich ‘to go’ and try the hula hoop before you do
Specialty sandwiches (and soups) from Lefty’s Silver Cart will fulfill your craving for fresh, local, slow food on a fast-paced day at the office. Lefty’s haunt is the Harvard University Farmers’ Market. Buy one of his grilled sandwiches and you get free use of a hula hoop. This could make your day, not just your lunch break!

A New England Celebration
On August 7th, New England food and crafts will prevail at the 14th annual Massachusetts Marketplace Festival at the Gardens at Elm Bank in Wellesley.

Dee-lish local cheeses
Boston Localvores is holding their 3rd Annual Local Cheese Tasting event this Sunday, August 8th, in Somerville. It’s outdoors, it’s free, it’s New England cheese, it’s gooooood.

Beat the heat, with popsicles
La Tartine Gourmande gives readers a recipe for a sweet surprise with a refreshing twist: raspberry and peach popsicles for all!

Garden veggies make great dishes
Diary of a Locavore reveals a ratatouille recipe that will put your local garden vegetables to great use.

A taste of the sweet life
Bostonians, keep an eye out for the Ben and Jerry’s Scoop Truck around town and get a free taste of this New England favorite. Follow the truck on Twitter @BenJerrysTruck.

Farm fresh dinners all month long
Celebrate Connecticut farms with Dinners at the Farm events from August 5th through 28th. Visit Barberry Hill Farm and White Gate Farm for 12 fresh meals that benefit the local farming community. Say cheers to a good cause!

Take a bite out of Boston
Spend a night out in Boston on August 10th for the Taste of Park Plaza – culinary delights from twelve local restaurants will be there to greet you!

Dinner…on a bridge?
Dine in (on) an unusual venue, August 15th at The 10th Annual Iron Bridge Dinner in Shelburne Falls, MA.

Eat out in Boston
From August 15-20th, visit the city for Restaurant Week Boston and try some new local tastes or old favorite finds for three-course meals and a summer’s eve stroll.
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NATIONAL TREAT

NYC: 5 Immigrant Families, 5 Culinary Traditions circa 1900
What did food mean in terms of one’s cultural identity, one’s day-to-day life in turn-of-the-century New York? Jane Ziegelman’s book “An Edible History of Five Immigrant Families in One New York Tenement” looks like a fascinating read for any kind of history buff — food, social, urban, immigrant, women’s history, you name it.

As more and more dinner clubs put finishing touches to their menus and send out semi-private invites to devotees, an unusual supper club came to Boston’s South End earlier in the summer. Run by three men of no small talent or imagination– Michael Cirino, Jonny “Cigar” Cristaldi and Daniel Castaño — A Razor, A Shiny Knife (ARASK) has, over the past three years, sent out thousands of invitations and put on lavish meals across the country, including Los Angeles, Miami, Chicago, New York and Austin, not to mention London and Paris. The club boasts an appreciation “of making food a social and interactive experience among friends and strangers,” says founder Michael Cirino.

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Ilene Bezahler, Guest Contributor
Edible Boston

Salsa has long been a passion of Sarah Leech-Black, one which she has shared with her roommates here in Boston and while living in London. When an Irish roommate introduced Sarah to his family’s line of work, harvesting seaweed, the idea for a new product solidified: Sarah’s Sea Salsa. As this 20-something B.U. graduate says, the seaweed adds a natural salty flavor and brings health benefits to a versatile condiment.

Read the scoop on Sarah and her Sea Salsa.

Read PRK’s previous post from Edible Boston – Returning Tower Root Beer.

Oleana chef and owner Ana Sortun has a Russian-style iced-tea recipe from her Sofra Bakery that is something special for those hot, summer afternoons.  Listen to Ana make the tea HERE.

Lada’s Iced Tea:

• 2 cups freshly brewed, cooled herbal tea (Sortun recommends the Sevan blend from MEM Tea, found at the South End Formaggio or the Sevan Bakery)
• Juice of half an orange (1/4 cup)
• Apricot Jam (Greek or Mediterranean is best)
• Add the orange juice to the cooled tea and then stir in jam to taste. If the jam is not of a smooth consistency, after it has been added, run the tea through a strainer.
• Serve cold over ice.

Check out other selections from our Chef recipe series: Tremont 647’s Andy Husbands’ Grilling Techniques and his special BBQ recipe.