The Truck Food Cookbook by John T. Edge

Author:John T. Edge
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Workman Publishing Company
Published: 2012-03-24T16:00:00+00:00

An easy fusion of cultures.

Eric Smith and Hector Ward, proprietors.

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South Lamar Boulevard and Collier Street, Austin, Texas

THE TEXAS CUBAN

ERIC SMITH works for a video game designer. He didn’t want to commit to a full restaurant for this moonlight entrepreneurial endeavor. “Real restaurants are scary,” he told me. “But if I fail here, what am I out? I sell my trailer on eBay and walk away.”

Eric is a Texan. His partner, Hector Ward, late of the band Sigmund Fraud, is of Cuban ancestry. Thus the mashup known as The Texas Cuban, set in a rectangular trailer, painted glossy black, parked on a ragged patch of barren land across from a transmission repair shop.

When I asked how the two cultures fused in the trailer, Eric said, “We make our Cuban sandwiches to Hector’s Cuban specs. But we make them big—for Texas.” While we were talking, and I was thinking about how a Cuban sandwich shop establishes Texas provenance, I noticed that Eric and Hector source that most Texan of soft drinks: Dr Pepper, sweetened with true cane sugar and bottled in Dublin, Texas.

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