Street food revolution: Recipes and stories from the new food heroes - Richard Johnson

Forget posh, Michelin-star restaurants. Some of the best food around is now being served from vans, trucks and trikes at Britain’s markets and music festivals.

There are some real food heroes out there, working the streets of Britain. The best are specialists — they do a few dishes, and they do them well. Their menu-not-so-fixé can change at a whim according to what looks good at the market that day. Which means that it’s fresh, seasonal and local.

Richard Johnson set up the British Street Food Awards to celebrate all that’s great about these traders. Travelling across the UK and Ireland, he tells the remarkable stories of the budding food and drink entrepreneurs who have chosen wheels over bricks-and-mortar. From the porridge bar outside Edinburgh Castle to the coffee cart on the northernmost tip of Ireland and the bánh mì stall in London’s East End, they prepare everything right in front of you. The traders share a handful of their top-secret recipes, so you can recreate the perfect burger, pie and brownie at home.

If you’ve ever been tempted to ditch the 9 to 5 and drive off into the sunset in a vintage ice-cream van, this is the book for you.