Across the ages people have been filling their tummies with food purchased from street vendors. Even in these modern times the tradition of street vending persists. Millions of people fill up on hot dogs and pop while gathered at special events such as fairs, festivals, concerts, and sporting events. Unfortunately, (or perhaps fortunately) unlike long ago, the occupation of street food vending is not as simple as a bag of chickens and a butcher knife. Today, selling food from a booth requires business moxie and following all the procedures of due diligence, licensing and regulations as does any business start-up. Food Booth, The Complete Guide to Starting and Operating a Food Concession Business provides much needed step-by-step guidance making the American dream of owning ones own business assessable to even the most unlikely entrepreneur.

A comprehensive step-by-step guide to designing, managing, and operating a food concession and food stand business. Based directly on the author¿s twenty-six years of experience, the reader is guided with concrete, no-nonsense information about how to plan and design a mobile food service business from the ground up. With specific sound management and marketing practices the reader is advised how to reach their sales potential quickly, and compound their sales year after year.

Cultural and historical background information accompanies over one hundred ninety authentic recipes for gazpacho, garlic soup, steak with bananas, clemole, cocktails, punches, and other Mexican dishes and beverages

This book explores the links between food and democracy. It addresses how democratic principles can be used to shape our food system and takes a practical ‘how-to’ approach to using democratic processes to regain control of the food we eat. It also highlights what food democracy looks like on the ground and how individuals, communities and societies can be empowered to access, cook and eat healthy food in ways that are sustainable. Food democracy, as a concept, is a social movement based on the idea that people can and should be able to actively participate in shaping the food system rather than being passive spectators. The book is useful for university and advanced TAFE courses that cover topics examining food in health sciences, social sciences and other areas of study. It is also relevant to health practitioners, nutritionists, food advocates, policy makers and others with a keen interest in exploring an alternative to the industrial food system known as “Big Food.”

One of the large sliding doors on the south side of the shop was wide open and Henry went through it on a dead run followed closely by the angry ox. Henry ran completely through the shop and out an open door on the garage end. Luckily, the ox was slowed somewhat by its new iron shoes which didnt provide much traction on the hard concrete floor. But, it knew where Henry went and charged out the door after him. Chapter 3: the Ox Shoe Incident The next morning while Frank was doing the milking, Tex came slowly limping into the barn on three legs. One ear was badly torn and his white fur was caked with dried blood. Thank God youre back. We had given you up for dead, Frank told him. The rest of the milking would have to wait. Chapter 8: Frank Woods Muck-land Potatoes What was in that cabinet? What was so valuable or secretive that it needed to always be locked away? Moreover, why didnt Henry, who knew just about everything about the town, know what was inside? Or, was it a secret and he wasnt telling? As youthful curiosity will often insist, one day I just had to have an answer. Chapter 12: Town Hall Tales When the spray of water hit the fire and hot bricks, it instantly turned to a huge quantity of steam. The steam immediately changed direction and exploded out the top of the chimney. The steam explosion launched many bricks and one very startled fireman off the roof still clutching the writhing fire hose as if it was an enraged python with a bareback rider. Chapter 17: the Cellar Savers It would have been priceless to see the expression that must have come across the face of the cars driver as his headlights caught the sight of that sled full of kids passing him and pulling ahead. Chapter 28: The Ripsled Riders

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Second International Conference of the Immersive Learning Network, iLRN 2016, held in Santa Barbara, CA, USA, in June/July 2016. The proceedings contain 9 full papers carefully reviewed and selected from 45 submissions and the best 5 special track papers. The papers focus on various applications of immersive technologies to learning.