Mission Street Food is a restaurant. But it’s also a charitable organization, a taco truck, a burger stand, and a clubhouse for inventive cooks tucked inside an unassuming Chinese take-out place. In all its various incarnations, it upends traditional restaurant conventions, in search of moral and culinary satisfaction.
Like Mission Street Food itself, this book is more than one thing: it’s a cookbook featuring step-by-step photography and sly commentary, but it’s also the memoir of a madcap project that redefined the authors’ marriage and a city’s food scene. Along with stories and recipes, you’ll find an idealistic business plan, a cheeky manifesto, and thoughtful essays on issues ranging from food pantries to fried chicken. Plus, a comic.
Ultimately, Mission Street Food: Recipes and Ideas from an Improbable Restaurant (Authors: Anthony Myint & Karen Leibowitz) presents an iconoclastic vision of cooking and eating in twenty-first century America.
Mission Street Food’s current menu is posted at missionchinesefood.com
2234 Mission St (Lung Shan Restaurant)
Closed Wednesday
Open Every other day from 11:30am to 10:30pm
They donate 75 cents per entree to The San Francisco Food Bank.
Corkage fee: $8
Follow them on twitter, @missionstfood and Facebook.
Buy the book from McSweeney’s and $5 from your purchase of this book will go to Slow Food USA
Buy Mission Street Food on Amazon
Image courtesy of Bay Area Bites | KQED Food
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