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Food Truck

Aspiring chefs usually have to prove their cooking skills in the backs of kitchens. Now, some chefs have found a fast track to culinary stardom and a more inspirational method of cooking. They're starting up food trucks all around, from city to city bringing the people the food instead of the people coming to them.

I have always been interested in cooking and food for family and friends ever since I can remember. There has been a new craze popping up in cities world wide, taking over modern culture. Food Trucks have changed from being your good old taco truck on the corner of the street to actual gourmet experiences. This project intrigued me to explore the different possibilities of creating my own restaurant on wheels. Chiefs have already mastered the technique of pleasing dine in guests and have expanded to this new idea in order to bring their food to the people and not the other way around. This is a quote I found to help explain the feeling of freedom and new ideas from a head chef who was tired of cooking in a traditional kitchen and explored his ways, "I was tired of working at restaurants," he says. "I kind of wanted to do something that was a little bit more my style, which was a little chaotic. And I enjoy being outside. Some days we're next to a mountain, and other days we're in the urban downtown, you know, homeless people asking us for free food."

For this project I am either torn between creating a food truck for actual lunch or dinner items or to expand to new ideas such as a bakery food truck. I like the bistro idea with a home based atmosphere and feel but at the same time i feel that creating a food truck based on sweet deserts will be a challenge in that it has not yet been as developed as other food truck ideas have. Upon research I have found that in many cities nationwide there have been food trucks being created with different nationalities as well. For example there are Chinese food trucks all the way to Indian food based trucks.

Inspiration

There are many different reasons why someone like me would chooses a specific career path such as graphic design. I have always been interested in editorial design as well as advertising. One can say as a graphic designer you become in tune with the outside world while you immerse yourself with pop culture. For me, I can say that graphic design has been an outlet for me to express my views and ideas through art.

I was always interested in drawing when I was younger and as I began to grow my mind began to understand that art and culture is always around us wherever we go. Whether at school or work graphic design follows me and I am overwhelmed by how it is changing and adapting as the years go by. Being apart of something so creative and expressive makes me excited to continue in the direction I've been striving for for many years now. You can say my inspiration is not a specific artist or a specific work of art but more like the culture as a whole.