NYC Food Truck Assn. opens drive to help feed City’s homebound elderly

         Food truck fans can help feed a frail elderly neighbor while buying their own lobster roll, taco, grilled cheese sandwich or ice cream treat starting tomorrow May 1 through May 15.  Our town’s hottest rolling kitchens have pledged to support Citymeals-on-Wheels as it delivers meals to needy seniors who can no longer shop or cook for themselves.

         The NYC Food Truck Association-Citymeals-on-Wheels Partnership will be announced with a pow wow of truckers gathered at the World Financial Tuesday at noon.

         Some of the city’s most popular roving vendors will be collecting donations and each day two trucks will donate five per cent of the day’s revenue to support the lifeline of meals going to the elderly shutins Citymeals serves. Last year Citymeals delivered 1.8 million meals to 16,500 elderly New Yorkers.  James Beard and I launched this public/private partnership in 1981 when we firstr discovered government funds for meals did not cover weekends or holidays. The mission has extended to emergencies when the city cannot deliver like 9/11 and in blizzards and heat waves.

         Among the participating trucks are: Andy's Italian Ices, Big D's Grub Truck, Bongo Brothers, Coolhaus, Cupcake Crew, Desi Food Truck, Eddie’s Pizza, Frites’N’Meats, Gorilla Cheese, Green Pirate Juice Truck, Kelvin Natural Slush Co., Kimchi Taco Truck, Luke's Lobster, Marky Ramone’s Cruisin' Kitchen, México Blvd., Mexicue, Mike ‘N’ Willie’s, Milk Truck, Morris Grilled Cheese, Mud Truck, Nuchas Empanadas, Palenque Colombian Food Truck, Pera Turkish Tacos, Phil's Steaks, The Red Hook Lobster Pound Truck, Rickshaw Dumpling Truck, Schnitzel & Things, Shorty's, Souvlaki GR, Sweetery NYC, Taim Mobile, The Treats Truck, Valducci's Original Pizza, Van Leeuwen Ice Cream, and Wafels & Dinges.

         Beginning today (Monday April 30) truck locations will be listed at www.nycfoodtrucks.org  or www.citymeals.org.  Information will also be available by visiting www.facebook.com/Citymeals.on.Wheels and www.facebook.com/nycfoodtrucks or by following us on Twitter @citymeals, @nycfoodtruck or view the tweets and track the whereabouts of all of the participating truck vendors, visit https://twitter.com/#!/Citymeals/trucks-3citymeals.

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