The Cascade Culinary Institute at Central Oregon Community College has a new project that foodies are going to love. A newly purchased food truck, named the “Shirley Ray,” is yet another exciting opportunity for culinary students, launched by COCC. The truck’s namesake honors the late Shirley Ray, whose donations funded the project. The food truck […]
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Hey Baby, (Who Cares if) it’s Cold Outside!
What do food cart lovers do when the weather turns? Turn to the indoor beer gardens and heaters, of course
“Amazing vibe, world-class food and rotating beer taps.” According to Caleb Trowbridge, those are a few of the things that make The Podski a special place any time of year. Add in a fire pit, a new, heated building, food carts offering up warm hearty foods like stew, fried chicken and perogies, “Thirsty Thursdays” and […]
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A New Food Truck for Prineville
New Czech food truck opens up in Prineville
After running a successful sit-down restaurant for eight years, Jerry Kropacek is officially transitioning to “food truck life.” Hailing from the Czech Republic, Jerry will focus his new, mobile eateryโcalled Glacier Truckโon traditional Czech and German-style cuisine. Everything served is made from scratch, from the gulรกลก right down to the wiener schnitzel. Much of the […]
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School Bus Food Truck
A school bus-turned-food-truck will be used by Bend High culinary students at events and sports games this spring. The school district donated the bus to the culinary program. It’s outfitted with a flat-top grill, cold food prep area and a three-compartment sink, thanks to a grant from the Oregon Department of Education. The advanced culinary class […]
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The Samurai Sword Produces Some Great Food
Ronin food truck has traveled a winding road
What do The Food Network’s reality TV show, “The Great Food Truck Race,” a beat-up bus in an abandoned field near Cashmere, Washington, and a samurai without a master have in common? The answer: Ronin, a Japanese Food Truck located between Skjersaas and the westside Dutch Bros. on Century Drive. For the past several years, […]
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Not the Same as Mexican
Sol Verde serves up deliciously spicy New Mexican lunches
Frida Kahlo is not the same as Georgia O’Keeffe. Oh sure, their paintings may have the same vibrant colors contrasting with some of the same stark, blocky images, but the artists are clearly separated by cultural differences and influences as defined as the border between the United States and Mexico. Likewise, it is important to […]